Bears are not toys, bears are to be avoided. Bears are not to be befriended, whatever their age. The mother is most likely around the cubs. Most conflicts are related to mother bears. If you spot a bear, please report it to our Directorate on the emergency phone number +36 30 861-3808

The UNESCO Global Geoparks Council accepted 16 applications from prospective UNESCO Global Geoparks during the first meeting of its 8th session, organized under the auspices of M’Goun UNESCO Global Geopark in Marrakesh, Morocco, on 4 and 5 September 2023. According to the latest news, the Bükk Region Aspirant UNESCO Geopark is among them.

As we reported in our previous news, the brown bear has reappeared in the Bükk. However, this time the "invisible tourist" of the Bükk has shown itself to the hikers, who we thank for the announcement! It is very important, as we have asked in previous articles, that these reports are made to our Directorate as soon as possible.

The Bükk-Region Geopark is preparing for the 10th International Conference on UNESCO Global Geoparks. The conference will be held in Marrakesh, a royal city of Morocco, from 7-9 September. It will be hosted by the UNESCO Global Geopark M'goun in Morocco, which is making history, as this is the first time a UNESCO Global Geoparks Conference will be held on the continent.

After the visit from our colleagues from the Hateg Country Geopark at the beginning of August, two colleagues from the working organisation of the Bükk-Region Geopark could participate in a two-day study trip to the Hateg Country UNESCO Global Geopark.

BEAR, THE INVISIBLE TOURIST OF THE BÜKKWe would like to inform the public that two sightings of brown bears have taken place in the last week in the area of the Bükk National Park Directorate.

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.

In the last six months, several reports of brown bears have been published in the area of the Bükk National Park Directorate. During the investigation of the presumed occurrences, we mostly did not find any traces confirming the presence of the species, but rather fresh life traces of other mammal species.

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.

Due to the increase in the Carpathian brown bear (Ursus arctos) population and the changes in their habitats in recent years, we have been detecting more and more often signs of brown bears in the Bükk National Park Directorate's operational area. The range of the Carpathian bear population has reached the limits of the species' native habitats.

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 photo was taken from the roof terrace of the Bükk Observatory by astronomer Erika Varga-Verebélyi, astronomy guide, with a Nikon Z6 with 13 sec exposure time, from a tripod, without a telescope, at 23:30 on the night of 23rd.

The Novohrad-Nógrád UNESCO Global Geopark suffered a great loss. Our founding member Ivona Cimermanova has passed away. Her spirit and activity have been incorporated into the consciousness of our geopark, and are now part of our heritage.

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.