As part of the International Year of Caves and Karst 2021 (IYCK), UIS announces the first International Cave Animal of the Year!
The International Cave Animal will raise worldwide attention on the little-known zoological diversity and importance of subterranean habitats, and thus contribute to global awareness of the urgent need for cave protection.
To learn more about underground habitats, which animal is being celebrated, and which campaigns appear in different countries, see
Germany -> https://hoehlentier.de/
Australia -> https://www.caveanimaloftheyear.org.au/
Greece -> https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/cave-animal-of-the-year-2021-greece, https://www.facebook.com/CaveAnimalOfTheYearGreece.gr/
Italy -> https://animalidigrotta.speleo.it/
Spain-> https://bioespeleologia.blogspot.com/2020/12/invertebrado-cavernicola-jiennense-del.html
Switzerland -> https://cavernicola.ch/
USA -> https://caves.org/conservation/caveanimaloftheyear.shtml
The first international Cave Animal of the Year is cave beetles.
