Written declaration in the European Parliament
Posted: Mon 10 Nov 2008 23:16
An email seems to be doing the rounds asking for support for an EU written declaration "on the protection of caves as a cultural, natural and environmental heritage". I'm not sure if BCA has a view on this - I see nothing on here.
Here's the written declaration...
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sidesSear ... artValue=0
and a web site with a presentation...
www.cavedeclaration.eu
It strikes me as a rather woolly and perhaps conceived by someone with not much of a caving background. "(c) incentives for conservation of caves, ensuring that they will be studied by specialists
like speleologists, geo(morpho)logists, archaeologists, biologists, climatologists, etc.;" could mean that they want to stop recreational cavers trashing caves.
Does anyone know if there has been any discussion I've missed within the UK caving community?
Paul Brooks
Here's the written declaration...
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sidesSear ... artValue=0
and a web site with a presentation...
www.cavedeclaration.eu
It strikes me as a rather woolly and perhaps conceived by someone with not much of a caving background. "(c) incentives for conservation of caves, ensuring that they will be studied by specialists
like speleologists, geo(morpho)logists, archaeologists, biologists, climatologists, etc.;" could mean that they want to stop recreational cavers trashing caves.
Does anyone know if there has been any discussion I've missed within the UK caving community?
Paul Brooks