Author Archives: Henk Goutier

A massive earthquake devastated huge parts of Turkey and Syria, killing and injuring thousands of people and leading to what could be a major humanitarian disaster. Teams of cavers and cave rescuers form the Turkish Cave Rescue and Turkish Speleological … Continued

The team of the European Cave Protection Commission is inviting every caver with cave and karst protection and conservation ambitions, to join the commission to help pushing forward the cave and karst protection goals of the FSE in Europe. The … Continued

During the year 2022 the European Cave Protection Commission ECPC has got some funds as donations.At the end of the year we decided to double this amount from our regular ECPC budget and invest all in a cave clean-up project “Clean … Continued

Call for Cave Protection Projects It is with great pleasure that the FSE announces the next call for Cave Protection Projects to receive the Label “EuroSpeleo Protection 2023” from the ECPC (European Cave Protection Commission of the FSE). The EuroSpeleo … Continued

It is with great pleasure that the European Speleological Federation (FSE) publishes the next EuroSpeleo Newsletter of November 2022. This Newsletter will be exclusively available in electronic form and it will be distributed through the FSE mailing lists, website and … Continued

The EuroSpeleo protection Label 2022 was granted to the Italian project “Microplastic Pollution in Karstic and Cave Aquifers MPKCA“. The MPKCA Project was awarded during a presentation and a small ceremony at the 18th International Congress of Speleology ICS in … Continued

The 14th EuroSpeleo Forum took place from 5th to 11th September. In Ramales de la Victoria in Cantabria was the pre-congress and in the city of Burgos in the Museum of Human Evolution the main congress. About 200 cavers from … Continued

On July 26th 2022, during the International Congress of Speleology in France, the FSE celebrated its 30th anniversery. It was a postponed birthday because the anniversary should have been celebrated in 2020. Unfortunately this could not take place due to … Continued