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When the cave
of Praileaitz was discovered, we started to work hard in order to protect
this "little" cave located near a "little" village in the Basque Country.
Then, we realized that there was not any special law that would keep this
wonderful historical, cultural and environmental heritage from being
destroyed, so we looked up, to Europe. While trying to find any other
associations in Europe that would also take care of this kind of matters, we
found out that there was a big lack of communication between different
organisms that would work on the same issues. We contacted a few of them,
and made a meeting at the European Parliament in order to talk about the
need of protection of the caves in their very different aspects.
That is how our "European Forum of Caves and Karst
Environment Protection" was born. And its first deed was the Written
Declaration on Protection of caves as a cultural, natural and environmental
Heritage. It is necessary to make all we can, each of us in our field, to
make people realize that when a cave is being closed, thousands of years of
history are being erased forever, but not only this, a wonderful habitat for
different rare specimens of fauna, a natural reservoir of water resources, a
marvellous environment sub terrae are gone. That is why we support
the entire silent but continuous work is being done by the specialists
involved, such as speleologist, archaeologists, biologist, climatologists,
palaeontologists... and a vast etcetera.
Therefore, it is a pleasure for me to come to this first
symposium, as I believe it is important to give the first step, which
sometimes is the hardest one, but it is also important to make a good job
and continue with it. Thank you very much for having taken all this job to
prepare a needed big meeting like the one in Vercors, and let's work
together for a second, a third... until we achieve our common goal; make
people realize how rich is this planet, both the part we see, and the part
we don't . (pdf,
54 KB)
Mikel
Irujo,
Member of the European Parliament
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1st EuroSpeleo Protection Symposium
Agenda
(update: 28th July)
program "1st EuroSpeleo Protection Symposium" (pdf,
41 KB)
1st
information about the round tables (pdf,
42 KB)
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***24th August: EuroSpeleo Protection Symposium - part 1***
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9:00 am - 9:55 am: |
official opening of the symposium under the patronage of MEP Mikel
Irujo Amezaga
opening presentation by the commission |
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10:00 am - 10:25 am: |
C.
Tscherter (F): Protéger pourquoi - pour qui - pourquoi faire |
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10:30 am - 10:55 am: |
J.-P.
Bartholeyns (BE): La Commission Wallonne d'Etude et de Protection
des
Sites Souterrains (CWEPSS) |
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11:00 am - 11:25 am: |
V.
Lascu (RO): Cave Protection in Romania, a Perfectible Model within
the Framework of European Experience-Sharing |
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11:30 am - 11:55 am: |
M.
SOUVERVILLE (F): ARSPAN - une expérience de protection à l'aven de
Noël |
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12:00 pm - 12:30 pm: |
C.Grebe (D):
The cave protection policy of the European Cave Protection
Commission (ECPC-FSUE) |
afternoon session:
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14:00 pm - 14:40 pm: |
Cavernes Magnétiques (DVD): Dépollution du gouffre du Camion, Htes
Pyrénées |
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14:45 pm - 18:00 pm: |
open round table: technical and scientific cave protection (more
information soon available) |
***25th August: alpine underground 2008***
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9:00 am - 9:25 am: |
opening of the
symposium |
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9:30 am - 9:55 am: |
B.
VOGEL (D) : Overview on last Alpine Underground symposium edition |
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10:00 am - 10:25 am: |
G.
BOURNET (F): Le contrat de rivière Vercors Eau Pure : un outil de
gestion à l'échelle d'un bassin versant |
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10:30 am - 10:55 am: |
C.
Tscherter (F): Les
karsts d'altitude, victimes silencieuses de la ruée vers l'or blanc |
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11:00 am - 11:25 am: |
R. Wenger & P-Y. Jeannin
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Tenants et aboutissants de l'aménagement touristique du Majlis
al-Jinn, l'une des plus grandes salles souterraines du monde
(Sultanat d'Oman) |
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11:30 am - 12:00 pm |
O.
HITZ (CH): Cave and karst protection in Switzerland |
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12:00 am - 12:30 pm: |
A. Flahaut, D. Knibbs & M. Souverville (F)
: ARSPAN : une expérience de protection à l'Aven de Noël |
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12:00 am - 12:30 pm: |
I. Ciumasu
(RO): The speleological tourism in Romania - present and
perspectives |
afternoon session:
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14:00 am - 14:25 pm |
B.
VOGEL (D): 10 points programm for the Alps - declaration on the
protection of alpine karst areas in Europe |
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14:30 pm - 18:00 pm: |
open round table: speleology in protected areas, specific approaches
and problems for the protection of alpine karst areas (Bärbel Vogel,
Géraud Bournet and ECPC) |
***26th
August: excursion day***
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10:00 am - 12:30 pm: |
FSUE GAM
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14:00 pm - 18:00 pm: |
Workshop & visit on the field : Karst destruction in Alpine ski
resorts.
(organised by Vercors park – G. BOURNET) |
***27th August: EuroSpeleo Protection
Symposium - part 2***
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10:00 am - 12:30 pm: |
open round table: cave protection and public politics |
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14:00 pm - 18:00 pm: |
open round table: cave protection in laws, directives |
***28th August: “European Conservatoire” :
Caves conservation in Europe - European underground heritage***
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9:00 am - 9:25 am: |
D.
Delanghe (F) :
Présentation du concept de conservatoire souterrain |
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9:30 am - 9:55 am: |
C.
GAUCHON (F): Patrimoine des grottes |
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10:00 am - 10:25 am: |
D. Haviarova, P. Gazik, Z. Visnovska & L. Vlcek
(SK) : The longest cave system in Slovakia : Demanovska Cave System
(Low Tatras Mts). A new Ramsar |
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10:30 am - 10:55 am: |
J.
BUSSELO et al (ES): Valorisation environnementale des cavités
naturelles au Pays Basque |
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11:00 am - 11:25 am: |
B.
PERIC (SI): Old tourist pathways in Skocjan Caves and their
renovation |
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11:30 am - 11:55 am: |
V.
LASCU (RO): Ciur Izbuc - an example for an unique underground
heritage |
afternoon session:
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14:00 pm - 14:45 pm: |
poster
session:
La
réserve naturelle de la grotte de Hautecourt (Ain) (M. Des
Chatelliers)
Caves conservation in Russia (A. YUSHKO)
Caves in Kosovo : Their values and their protection (F. BAJRAKTARI)
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15:00 pm - 18:00 pm: |
open round table: Towards a European Underground “Conservatoire” ?
(Damien Delanghe and ECPC)
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***29th August: EuroSpeleo Protection Symposium - part 3***
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9:00 am - 12:30 pm: |
open round table: cave protection in public campaign - strategies,
ideas and activities
(responsable of the ECPC: Viorel Lascu) |
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14:00 pm - 18:00 pm: |
open round table: cave protection and publication - on the way to a
European Charta!?
(responsable of
the ECPC: Ana Sofia Reboleira) |
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