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The idea behind the work teams is to
subdivide the commission’s work into 5 main subjects: legislation, public
politics, publications, public appearance and campaign and technical and
scientific cave protection. The members of the commission decide in which
work team or teams they would like to participate and for each work team one
operator, who organizes the activities within the team and acts as direct
contact to the commission board, is determined.
The members of each work team prepare an own agenda and
organise this work. And in general each work team is authorised to work
independently in prior accordance with the commission board. Reports about
the state of affairs in case of need are sent to the secretaries of
commission. The objectives listed below for the work teams are just examples
for their activities. Furthermore new or modified issues will be discussed
in the work teams and with the commission board.
If you are interested to join of these work teams, you
have new ideas or proposals for interesting projects for our commission,
just send a mail to
protection@eurospeleo.org.
1. Legislation work team
Members: Franci Gabrovsek, SI/IUCN
Jochen Goetz, DE
Javi Moreno García, ES
Subjects of work:
- inventory of the existing legislation/actions (positive and negative) in
each country on cave protection
- proposing a new European Law or Directive according to the IUCN Guidelines
- helping to propose new national laws or directives
2. Public politics work team
operator: Viorel Lascu, RO
Members: Christiane Grebe, DE
Olivier Vidal, FR
Viviana Lugo, FR
Subjects of work:
- Setting up European actions and try to finance them at European level (EU
Programs like Life, Natura 2000, etc)
- Co-ordinating projects on FSUE level
- Setting up a political lobby for cave protection in Europe
- Acquiring organisations and politicians that support our goal and
objectives
- Helping the countries to protect the national speleological heritage
- Gathering all endangered areas in Europe
- Work with local/national and European organisations
3. Publications work team
Operator: Ana Sofia Reboleira, PT
Members: Ioana Meleg, RO
Jochen Goetz, DE
Jan
Urban, PL
Subjects of work:
- translation of the IUCN “Guidelines for Cave and Karst Protection” and
making them public and known by all cavers
- FSUE - guidelines: “10 things cavers can do to protect caves”
- translation of the N.S.S. “Guide to responsible Caving” (proposal)
- preparation of specific commission's publication
4. Public appearance and campaign work team
Members: Jean-Claude Thies, LU
Christiane Grebe, DE
Vesselin Drobenov, BG
Subjects of work:
- Establishing the European Cave Protection Workgroup as main contact for
environ-mental protection in karst and caves areas (for all countries etc.)
- Campaign in all national caving magazines
- Link formula to gain access to the Cave Protection internet site from all
national cav-ing sites
- Setting up the "EuroSpeleo Protection Label" for exemplary cave
environmental actions (recommendations and rules for this label)
- Educational projects
5. Technical and scientific cave protection work team
Members: Marcos Vaqueiro-Rodriguez, ES
Ana Sofia Reboleira, PT
Subjects of
work:
- campaign to make the Cave Cleaning/Restoring Day in the FSUE
- preventive cave protection: education
- publications (in co-operation with other work teams): Code Ethics, “Guide
to re-sponsible Caving”
- legal protection and promotion.
- Join the “know how” about: techniques to cave protection, cave cleaning:
paints and carburian marks cleaning, rubbish removal, speleothem restoring,
paints cleaning in subterranean environment in different rocks and
lithologies, speleo-thems cleaning
- cave biota
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