The International Geodiversity Day (October 6) proclaimed by UNESCO at the 41st General Conference in 2021 is a worldwide celebration to recognise the many aspects of the geoheritage of our Globe. This special day is promoted by the Hungarian Geoparks as well.

On the 19th and 20th of August, we hosted the Taiwanese team of the study tour "Hiking Route Network of Central-Eastern Europe" in the Novohrad-Nógrád UNESCO Global Geopark.

On the initiative of the Volcanic Working Group of the European Geoparks Network (EGN), a special volume including the domestic UNESCO Global Geoparks was published on the volcanism and geotourism potential of our old continent's geoparks.

The extremely diverse volcanic heritage of the Novohrad-Nógrád UNESCO Global Geopark has been popularized by the latest study by Professor Szabolcs Harangi in the Geoconservation Research Journal.

With this title, Professor László Kordos gave his presentation to the workers of the Ipolytarnóc Fossils Nature Reserve.

The transnational Slovak-Hungarian Novohrad-Nógrád Geopark, which spans national borders, received an official UNESCO recognition. It can proudly bear the title of UNESCO Global Geopark for another 4 years.

The Bükk National Park Directorate and the Štátna ochrana prójdy Slovenskej republiky (State Nature Protection Office of the Slovak Republic) organized the "Together we protect nature" competition on May 31, 2023, on the Slovak side of the Somoskő castle, in accordance with traditions dating back several years in the transnational, Slovak-Hungarian Geopark.

The geopark networks of the V4 countries (Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia) - at the initiative of the Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Environment Agency - signed a declaration of intent for cooperation („Memorandum of Cooperation among the Visegrad Group Geoparks“) at an international meeting held in Banská Štiavnica (Selmecbánya) on May 10, 2023.

Members of the UNESCO Global Geoparks regional network, the European Geoparks Network (EGN) commemorate the geological heritage of our old continent every year from the end of May to the beginning of June, to which the transnational Slovak-Hungarian Novohrad-Nógrád Geopark also joins.

International geoparkers appeared at the Slovak-Hungarian stateborder on the topic of Photography and Climate Change project to visit the spectacular borderline geosites of the transnational Novohrad-Nógrád UNESCO Global Geopark on January 18, 2023.

The Fossil Site of Ipolytarnóc can be visited even during the winter break, and as time-travel hunters, the visitors can follow the footprints of former tropical predators.

The Hungarian Natural History Museum issued a press release on the latest results of the research on the fossil footprints of Ipolytarnóc. Together with the staff of the Bükki National Park Directorate and the Herman Ottó Museum in Miskolc, they used the latest techniques, including 3D scanning, to track down the Miocene prehistoric world.

The thematic tours of the Bükk National Park Directorate are becoming more and more popular at the Ipolytarnóc Fossils Nature Reserve.

As part of the RiWild INTERREG project of the Bükk National Park Directorate the research on the footprinted sandstone continues, the expert of the Herman Ottó Museum of Miskolc stated about the newest discoveries in the media.

A new study was published on the research concerning the paleohabitat of the Ipolytarnoc Fossils.

In the second half of May the Prehistoric Pompeii of the Miocene Park awaits its visitors with special programs.