Launch: Guidebook of Good Environmental Practices for the Quarrying of Limestone in Karst Areas

The Technical Partnership between Brazilian Society of Speleology, the Votorantim Cimentos and the Atlantic Forest Biosphere Reserve has just made available via free download the Guidebook of Good Environmental Practices for the Quarrying of Lime Stone in Karst Areas. The work organized by Luis Henrique Sánchez and Heros Augusto Santos Lobo counts on texts of eight

Participation on Symposium on Speleology and Environmental Legislation — Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Between August 24th and 26th, the Votorantim Cimentos and SBE – Brazilian Society of Speleology represented Technical Cooperation, which also counts on the participation of RBMA – Mata Atlântica Biosphere Reserve, at the Symposium on Speleology and Environmental Legislation in the Department of Geology of the Federal University of Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The

Technical Cooperation participates in a meeting of the Council for Monitoring the Project Environmental Assets of Cova Eirós, Spain

On May 8, 2018, a meeting of the Environmental Accompaniment Council of Cova Eirós, in Lugo, Spain, was held at the Enxeñaria Higher Polytechnic School, where the various studies carried out so far were presented to discuss the importance of conservation of the Cova Eirós, and made compromises regarding the recovery of the cavity ceiling.

SBE holds workshop about fundamentals for the conservation of caves in Belo Horizonte

The Brazilian Speleological Society (SBE) held its second workshop on “Fundamentals for speleological legislation” on July 21 in the Museum of Natural History in Belo Horizonte MG, during the 6th Meeting of Speleology of State of Minas Gerais (6° EMESP). The objective was the divulgation of the document “Fundamentals for the conservation of caves”, launched