During the public campaign, a variety of interactive activities were carried out with tourists, including introducing the history of geopark development, guiding the tour of the upgraded museum of Zhangjiajie global geopark, watching a 5D science fiction movie of “Fantastic Fate in Wulingyuan”, and distributing materials for science popularization of the development of globally distinct landforms in the geopark and questionnaires on “World Earth Day” and Zhangjiajie global geopark. A very large number of tourists actively participated in these activities and their questionnaires show that they all think that these activities are of great help for arousing the public’s awareness on environment protection and can spur people to take an active part in geological heritage conservation activities.

 

April 22 was named as “World Earth Day” in 1970 and since then has been celebrated each year with various sentimental themes for environment protection. The theme of the 45^th “World Earth Day” is “cherishing the Earth’s resources; changing the model of development; economically and effectively using land resources; protecting natural ecological space through our joint efforts”.