'Save a Rock', citizen stewardship for protection of geological heritage in Spain

Summary
It is a free and volunteering programme established in 2017 by the Geological Survey of Spain (IGME) to promote the conservation of Spanish geoheritage through a follow-up stewardship system. Through a simple registration system, any person may watch over a place of geological interest that, for its scientific, educational or touristic value, that person thinks it is worthwhile to be preserved. They must watch over the site and care for it. Each person contributes to ensure its conservation with the following compromises: 1) To inform IGME of any threat or incident that may occur at the site; if any anomaly is detected, such as e.g. destruction or plundering of minerals or fossils, by an email address (apadrinaunaroca@igme.es); the person is contacted and requested to report on the details of the incident through a form enabled for that purpose; 2) To visit, at least once annually, the geological site of interest that is the object of the stewardship.
Classifications
Region
Scale of implementation
Ecosystem
Theme
Other theme
Challenges
Aichi targets
Sendai Framework
Challenges
Conserguir que los 4.000 Lugares de Interés Geológico de España tengan un voluntario que vigile su estado de conservación
Beneficiaries
Cualquier persona mayor de 18 años y organizaciones
Building blocks
How do the building blocks interact?
Se refuerzan los apadrinamientos desde los dos enlaces principales del programa
Impacts
1780 volunteers that take care of 1500 geosites in Spain.
400 volunteer alerts warning of conditions in real time. It connects public administrations with citizens. Companies from the mining sector have joined to conserve the LIG located in their operations.
Story

Dimos la oportunidad a todos los voluntarios de 'Apadrina una Roca' de estar presentes en la COP25, en la Cumbre Mundial del Clima de 2019 a través de un video donde contaban la incidencia del cambio climático en la conservación de sus Lugares de Interés Geológico apadrinados. Se presentó oficialmente en la Green Area en Madrid.
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