Dear all,
The below text has been published on the ECPC website together with a small report about cleaning activities in countries (Regions) where ECPC members live.
The entire FSE has been asked to supply data for this document but only a very tiny number reacted. A big thank you to these few FSE members.
As a matter of fact, even after 4 weeks time, many FSE members were unable to sent data for this report, not even a reaction.
A lot of advocacy work still needs to be done in the future to awake responsibility for cave and karst protection and conservation within many leading speleological organisations.
For the 2024 World Cleanup Day, a day that is designated by the UN*1, the ECPC is publishing a small report about caves and karst cleaning activities in the countries and Regions of some ECPC and FSE members.
With this symbolic summary, the European Cave Protection Commission (ECPC), a commission of the European Speleological Federation (FSE) would like to make the public aware of its strives to clean the caves. The ECPC further tries to persuade other caving friends to become aware of waste situations in caves and crevasses and step towards actions to get it out.
Please find the report here on our website following this link.
*1 On 8 December 2023, the United Nations General Assembly, in its seventy-eighth session, unanimously adopted resolution 78/122 “World Cleanup Day”, which proclaims 20 September as World Cleanup Day.