{"id":3420,"date":"2011-11-25T16:54:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T16:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=3420"},"modified":"2011-11-25T16:54:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T16:54:05","slug":"scottish-geopark-loses-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=3420","title":{"rendered":"Scottish &#8216;geopark&#8217; loses status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_2_0_1_13221535643261047\"><strong id=\"yui_3_2_0_1_13221535643261041\"><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Lochaber Geopark which covers the area around Ben Nevis, was designated in 2007 as one of six UK areas of geological interest, or &#8216;geoparks&#8217;, by UNESCO, but it has lost this status because it cannot afford to employ a required full-time officer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unesco has withdrawn geopark status from an area of the Highlands that inspired work by scientist Charles Darwin in the 1800s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers running Lochaber Geopark could not raise the funds needed to employ a full-time project officer, a requirement of the designation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The status, which aims to protect and promote landscapes, was awarded by Unesco in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Scotland&#8217;s other parks are North West in Sutherland and Geopark Shetland.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The status is revalidated every four years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the Lochaber Geopark see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lochabergeopark.org.uk\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BBC News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-15773368\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lochaber Geopark which covers the area around Ben Nevis, was designated in 2007 as one of six UK areas of geological interest, or &#8216;geoparks&#8217;, by UNESCO, but it has lost this status because it cannot afford to employ a required &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=3420\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3421,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420\/revisions\/3421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}