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As you might have heard there is a problem of caves destruction in Brazil where President Lula has signed last month a decree authorizing such destruction for any reasons of industrial exploitation (mining, water, rubbish, chemicals, agro-industry, etc).
The FEALC is supporting Brazilian cavers in their fight against this decree since this situation might happen soon in other Latin American countries. The FSE and ECPC strongly support this protest, too, by 3 means for the moment :

1- sending the SBE a political support letter with copy to the EU Commission (this will be done soon)
2- asking to all national federations in Europe to send such a letter
3- asking to all European cavers to sign the online petition

So we ask you to help our Brazilian caving friends as a little christmas present ;-).

All the information on this issue is available,
in Portuguese on :
< http://www.sbe.com.br/manifesto.asp >
in Spanish on :
< http://www.sbe.com.br/manifesto_esp.asp >
and in English on :
< http://www.sbe.com.br/manifesto_ing.asp >

The petition is online on the brazilian website.
Here the English version :
< http://translate.google.com/translate?u … p;ie=UTF-8 >
Original version in Portuguese on :
< http://www.abaixoassinado.org/abaixoassinados/2115 >

On the page 2 (when you want to "subscribe" to the petition", read "Number of ID card & origin administration" instead of :
"Num Driver's identity and body dispatcher"

Thank you for your help in advance!

And now we wish you a merry christmas with your families and friends and a successful, joyful, healthy year 2009 with new discoveries and successful caving expeditions and many things more.

For the European Cave Protection Commission

Christiane Grebe & Olivier Vidal
Fédération Spéléologique Européenne (FSE)
e-mail: protection@eurospeleo.org
web: < http://protection.eurospeleo.org >