KUALA TERENGGANU: Tasik Kenyir in the Hulu Terengganu district has been declared a national geopark and will be known as the Kenyir Geopark.
State tourism, culture and digital technology committee chairman Ariffin Deraman said this recognition was announced by the National Geopark Committee in a meeting chaired by Natural Resources, Environment and Climate Change Ministry deputy secretary-general Abdul Wahid Abu Salim in Putrajaya on Tuesday.Ariffin said the recognition was one of the best achievements of the state government, which has long been trying to establish Kenyir as a geopark as contained in the Terengganu Sejahtera Master Plan (Pitas 2030).
