UN cultural body tags Bohol Island country’s first-ever Global Geopark

THE United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has recognized Bohol as the Philippines’ first Global Geopark, the agency said on Wednesday.

According to UNESCO, Global Geoparks are “single, unified geographical areas where sites and landscapes of international geological significance are managed with a holistic

A MANILA court has found whistleblower Peter Joemel Advincula, who goes by the alias “Bikoy,” guilty of perjury in connection with claims he made against three lawyers in 2019. The Manila Metropolitan Trial Court concept of protection, education, and sustainable development.”

The island province thus joins 195 UNESCO-recognized geoparks in 48 countries.

“Two UNESCO Member States join the network: New Zealand and the Philippines,” UNESCO said in a statement shared by one of the agency’s war” was spotted 2,305 kilometers east of the Visayas with maximum sustained winds of 175 km per hour and gustiness of up to 215 km/h. The eye of Typhoon Mawar passed just north of Guam late Wednesday, but the eyewall –the strongest part of the storm –