Europe & North America

Czech Republic

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• Boskov caves, Bohemian Paradise National Geopark, Czech Republic

The Czech Republic’s 6 biosphere reserves are actively implementing conservation, traditional management and educational projects. The Krivoklatsko biosphere reserve has been involved in research, monitoring and education since 1979. The Krkonose/Karkonosze Transboundary Biosphere Reserve is shared with Poland.

The country is active in a large number of UNESCO’s earth science projects, from the study of karst aquifers to the development of Variscan biotas. The Bohemian Paradise Geopark includes elements of the Lower Paleozoic, volcanic deposits and rare dolomite caves.

Below you can access the projects that are currently being implemented in the country within the framework of UNESCO’s Natural Sciences Sector.

Freshwater

- Northern European Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data (FRIEND) More

- World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) Danube River Basin case study More

People, Biodiversity and Ecology

- Biosphere Reserves (WNBRs)

Earth Sciences

- National Geopark

- Triassic Time and Trans-Panthalassan Correlations (IGCP, Project 467)

- Late Variscan terrestrial biotas and palaeoenvironments  (IGCP, Project 469)

- GIS metallogeny of Central Asia (IGCP, Project 473)

- Sustainable Use of Platinum Group Elements (IGCP, Project 479)

- Middle Palaeozoic vertebrate biogeography, palaeogeography and climate (IGCP, Project 491)

- The Rheic Ocean: Its origin, evolution, and correlatives (IGCP, Project 497)

- Devonian land-sea interaction: evolution of ecosystems and climate (IGCP, Project 499)

- Ordovician palaeogeography and palaeoclimate (IGCP, Project 503)

- Karst Aquifers and Water Resources (IGCP, Project 513)

- Global correlation of A-type granites and related rocks, their mineralization, and significance in lithospheric evolution (IGCP, Project 510)

Sciences Policy and Sustainable Development

- Establishing Science and Technology Parks More