SK Kundasang chosen for Unesco assessment

RANAU: SK Kundasang has become the first Kinabalu Geopark adopted school selected for the assessment of Kinabalu Geopark as a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) Global Geopark site.

SK Kundasang was selected as the Kinabalu Geopark adopted school in August last year.

Its Parent Teacher Association secretary Naiwah Arifin said the school was selected following the establishment of its Eco-Science Park in 2018, involving an initial cost of about RM400,000 contributed by the Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry.

She said work to beautify the landscape of the eco-science park was done with the cooperation of strategic partners of the school.“Sabah Parks has helped us to set up a geopark corner at the park and plant herbs,” she told Bernama during the final assessment tour of Kinabalu Geopark as a Unesco Global Geopark site yesterday.

She said Kinabalu Geopark is the school’s new strategic partner along with Universiti Malaysia Sabah.The Kinabalu Geopark was declared a national geopark on March 18, 2020. It was later listed as a candidate for the Unesco Global Geopark, known as the “Aspiring Kinabalu Unesco Global Geopark”.