世界地质公园的发展近况和东南亚地质遗迹的保护现状

20世纪90年代以来，不少地球科学家致力于世界地质遗产的保护工作，在联合国教科文组织地学部的领导下，历时4年开展了2轮地质公园的可行性研究，并于1997年正式获得教科文组织大会批准，推动了地质公园的建立。在1996年北京第30届国际地质大会上，欧洲地质学家酝酿了欧洲地质公园网络的组建，取得了欧盟的支持。2000年，欧洲地质公园网和中国国家地质公园正式建立，2004年首批25家世界地质公园在巴黎联合国教科文组织总部正式通过评审并批准．经4批评审现已有52家世界地质公园正式建立。10余年的发展为地质公园的建设积累了丰富的经验。以中国和马来西亚为代表的东亚、东南亚国家，不仅具有丰富的地质遗产，而且在推动地质公园建设方面也发挥着榜样的作用，但各国的发展还很不平衡。

Recent development of global geoparks and present status of geological heritage protection in Southeast Asia

Since the 1990s, a number of geoscientists have been devoted to the global geopark heritage protection in conservation of geoheritage. Under the leadership of the UNESCO Earth Science Division, two feasibility studies of global geopark establishment, which lasted four years, were completed and adopted by the UNESCO General Assembly in 1997 and 2000 respectively, thus promoting the establishment of geoparks. In 1996, Several European geoscientists discussed the founding of a European geoparks network in the 30th IGC Beijing, which was supported by the EEU. Thus the network and the Chinese geoparks supported by the Chinese government were formally established in 2000. The first batch of 25 global geoparks were accepted and approved in 2004 by the UNESCO Headquarters. Now there are 52 global geoparks the world over. Since then, rich experience has been acquired in the construction of geoparks. East and Southeast Asian countries represented by China and Malaysia not only have abundant geological heritage resources but also set an example for the promotion of the construction of geoparks. However, the development of this work is rather unbalanced in different countries.