New UIS Bulletin available

We are glad to share with you Volume 65-1&2 of the UIS Bulletin. The PDF Interactive format can be downloaded by clicking on the link: http://uis-speleo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/UIS-Bulletin-65-12-December-2023.pdf

The 93 pages of this issue bring the following topics:

• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Editorial: The speleology we want in the coming years
• President’s Column – by Nadja Zupan Hajna: “Caves and Karst Globally”
• Proposal for UNESCO Caves and Karst Day Proclamation
• The UIS International Year of Caves and Karst 2021/22 UIS: An Early Summary
• Another Mulu expedition in November 2023
• Guidelines for Cave and Karst Protection: Updated and Translated
• United Nations: Conferences and speleology
• Statement of the German Speleological Federation for the UN Water Conference 2023
• UIS Delegation in Brazil: The present and future of international speleology on the agenda
• A Visit to Ouro Preto and its historic mining area, Minas Gerais, Brazil
• The Austrian Academy of Sciences: A New affiliated organization of the UIS
• UIS Informatic Commission: Opportunity to advance cave documentation
• UIS Informatic Commission: UIS online glossary now available
• UIS Arts and Letters Commission: Embark on an inspiring journey
• 14th International Cave Rescue Conference in Spain
• France Habe Prize 2022
• France Habe Prize 2023
• France Habe Prize 2024: Call for applications
• Expedition supported by the UIS: International Bio-speleological Expedition Sud 2023
• Expedition supported by the UIS: International expedition Albania Valbona 2023
• Event under the patronage of UIS: International conference Speleo-Austria 2023
• Expedition under the patronage of UIS: Shuanghe 400 expedition in China
• Event Supported by the UIS: Sternes 2023 expedition in Crete
• A New Unesco World Heritage on an evaporitic karst area of Italy
• Minutes of the UIS virtual Bureau meeting on February 9, 2023
• Minutes of the UIS Bureau meeting in Brazil (July 2023)
• In memoriam – Shou-Yue Zhang (China)
• In memoriam – Zhu Xuewen (China)
• In memory of František Skřivánek (Czech Republic)
• In memorian – Alexander Borysovych Klimchouk (Ukraine)
• Calendar of Events
• UIS Bureau 2022/2025
• List of UIS Member Countries
• Annual Contributions and Bank Account

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