# Geoheritage and geoconservation in SW Europe: achievements and challenges in France, Italy, Portugal and Spain

Paulo Pereira, Irene Maria Bollati, Isabelle Rouget, Manu Monge-Ganuzas

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Paulo Pereira, Irene Maria Bollati, Isabelle Rouget, Manu Monge-Ganuzas. Geoheritage and geo-conservation in SW Europe: achievements and challenges in France, Italy, Portugal and Spain. XI th International ProGEO Symposium, Oct 2023, Charnwood Forest Geopark, Loughborough, United Kingdom. hal-04374270

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# Geoheritage and geoconservation in SW Europe: achievements and challenges in France, Italy, Portugal and Spain

**Paulo Pereira** Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Minho, Portugal

**Irene Maria Bollati** Earth Sciences Department, University of Milan, Italy

**Isabelle Rouget** Natural History National Museum, Paris, France

**Manu Monge-Ganuzas** Service of Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve. Basque Government, Spain

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XI**TH** INTERNATIONAL
PROGEO SYMPOSIUM

9-11th October 2023
Charnwood Forest, UK

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ProGEO
International Association for the Conservation
of Geological Heritage

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Explore Britain's Unexpected Upland

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**PROGEO SW EUROPE**
**REGIONAL WORKING GROUP**

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The ProGEO SW Europe Regional Working Group was founded in 2010, gathering the ProGEO members from France, Italy, Portugal and Spain. Since then, the group met in five occasions to discuss the main topics regarding geoconservation initiatives in each country and to set strategies for collaboration between geoheritage researchers and practitioners.

The main aim of the regional group is the collaboration between the four countries, through the organization of scientific meetings and courses, the promotion of geoheritage and geoconservation amongst university students, the comparison and discussion of legislation regarding geoheritage protection and the development of a SW Europe regional inventory of geosites based on the national inventories and on a geological frameworks model common to the four countries.