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Preserve caves and karst in Europe

Support the written declaration WD 66 for cave protection in the European Parliament!

Until 4th of December 2008 deputies of the European Parliament can sign a declaration for cave protection. The general assembly of the European Speleological Federation FSE accepted the declaration without a dissentient vote.

From November 11th to 12th 2008 an information stand will be in front of the plenary hall in Brussels. A media conference will be held on Novmeber 11th. Only if the majority of deputies signs, cave protection can be established all over Europe.
 

Sponsors of the WD 66

We would like to thank the following sponsors for their support:

  • The Greens | European Free Alliance www.greens-efa.org
    For financial support of the flyers.
  • Metzgerdruck GmbH www.metzgerdruck.de
    For printing postcards and posters.
  • Edition Reuss www.editionreuss.de
    For donation of 10 books "Inside Mother Earth" from Max Wisshak and the support of our information stand in Brussels.
  • Klein und Neumann www.kundn.de
    For designing the campaign.
  • Od*Chi Urwurz www.urwurz.de
    For the cave music in our presentation.
  • Alb-Gold www.alb-gold.de
    For the donation of 'cavespagetti' as a culinary contribution and campaign support.

We would like to thank the cave photographers for the beautiful pictures for the campaign:

Other supporting organisations

How every European speleologist can help passing WD66

  1. Look for your deputy in the European Parliament.
    Check out the link www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public.do?language=en and click on your country to see the names and the contact details of your national deputies.

  2. Please contact them and ask him/her to sign declaration "WD 66" for cave protection in Europe latest till December, 4th. Tell them about our information stand in Brussels from November 11th to 12th 2008. At www.cavedeclaration.eu you can download the declaration in all 20 languages of the European Union.

    It would be even better, if you additionally call your deputy and write a personal letter (the deputies will answer to letters but not categorical to mails), in which you explain the problems in your national karst areas or maybe invite them to visit the caves in your region.

  3. Forward this information to all speleo clubs, NGOs, speleologists, etc. and ask them to support this campaign. The more people become active, the more likely will we succeed! More information and downloads you can find at www.cavedeclaration.eu.

The declaration "WD 66" for the protection of caves as cultural, natural and environmental heritage is also available at www.europarl.europa.eu/sidesSearch/search.do?type=WDECL&term=6&author=28233&language=EN&startValue=0

We printed postcards with the four different motives you find on the start page of this website for the stand in Brussels. If you are interested, you can order them in writing am Email to .

In addition, we can offer you the opportunity to visit the information stand in Brussels. On the 11th and 12th November each day up to 50 people can visit the stand for 3 hours. Interested persons have to send an e-mail with full address and date of birth to . If we receive too many requests, we will take into account the different countries proportionally.

With pleasure we will hand out information material and little presents (like calendars) at our stand. If somebody would like to contribute something, contact us at till latest October 30th. Sponsors and supporters could be mentioned and a link set up at www.cavedeclaration.eu.

For more information please contact us under one of the administrative addresses!
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