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About Speleo Canada
Speleo Canada’s purposes are - • To facilitate ongoing communication and fellowship among Canada's various organized caving/speleological groups, • To provide Canadian caving/speleological organizations a national voice on matters of common concern, and to provide a national platform for influencing governments and educating the public about the cave and karst issues. • To serve as a contact point for the international speleological community and to represent the Canadian caving community to the Union Internationale de Spéléologie (UIS) [International Speleological Union] Speleo Canada functions as a national working committee comprised of two representatives from each member organization, the current Canadian delegate to the UIS and a coordinator. We do not offer direct individual memberships, but we do encourage interested persons to join one of member organizations. Most of the groups comprising Speleo Canada have existed since the late 1960s and are provincially registered societies. Though the idea of a Canadian national speleological organization dates from that time, distance and communication challenges essentially isolated clubs to evolve within their own provinces. With the advent of reliable virtual meeting technologies, representatives of each of these groups, Canada’s current UIS representative and several supporting individuals first met together as Speleo Canada in 2021 to create a national level forum. Meetings are held monthly with agendas circulated before and minutes after. A few examples illustrate some of Speleo Canada’s actions to further its purposes. Zoom presentations by various provincial organizations have been shared nationally. The federal government has been petitioned to recognize formally the International Year of Caves and Karst. Protection of a key Ontario cave has been nationally supported with offers of cave management expertise. Through Speleo Canada, the Canadian caving community has responded to requests to support cave conservation issues in the Philippines and Brazil.
Speleo Canada
© SpeleoCanada 2024
About Speleo
Canada
Speleo Canada’s purposes are - • To facilitate ongoing communication and fellowship among Canada's various organized caving/speleological groups, • To provide Canadian caving/speleological organizations a national voice on matters of common concern, and to provide a national platform for influencing governments and educating the public about the cave and karst issues. • To serve as a contact point for the international speleological community and to represent the Canadian caving community to the Union Internationale de Spéléologie (UIS) [International Speleological Union] Speleo Canada functions as a national working committee comprised of two representatives from each member organization, the current Canadian delegate to the UIS and a coordinator. We do not offer direct individual memberships, but we do encourage interested persons to join one of member organizations. Most of the groups comprising Speleo Canada have existed since the late 1960s and are provincially registered societies. Though the idea of a Canadian national speleological organization dates from that time, distance and communication challenges essentially isolated clubs to evolve within their own provinces. With the advent of reliable virtual meeting technologies, representatives of each of these groups, Canada’s current UIS representative and several supporting individuals first met together as Speleo Canada in 2021 to create a national level forum. Meetings are held monthly with agendas circulated before and minutes after. A few examples illustrate some of Speleo Canada’s actions to further its purposes. Zoom presentations by various provincial organizations have been shared nationally. The federal government has been petitioned to recognize formally the International Year of Caves and Karst. Protection of a key Ontario cave has been nationally supported with offers of cave management expertise. Through Speleo Canada, the Canadian caving community has responded to requests to support cave conservation issues in the Philippines and Brazil.
Speleo Canada
