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2021 international year of caves and karst
Almost one third of the world's population depends on the water resources of karst aquifers
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The International Year of Caves and Karst # IYCK2021 was also inaugurated in Italy, promoted by the International Union of Speleology with the support of UNESCO and other 100 international partners, in order to raise awareness among institutions and the public throughout the world on the urgent need to protect caves and karst landscapes.
In our country, the Italian Speleological Society, the Italian Alpine Club, the Italian Tourist Caves Association, and all the associations and individuals who want to collaborate, will celebrate the # IYCK2021 by giving life to events, playful and educational moments, seminars and publications. on the theme “Exploring, knowing, protecting” the underground world.
Nearly a third of the world's population depends on the water resources of karst aquifers, including the inhabitants of large metropolitan areas such as Rome and Vienna.
In Italy alone, over 40,000 caves have been discovered, explored and documented in the last century by speleologists;
of these, many have been open to tourism and support local economies.
Crucial sites for our survival due to the water and mineral resources they contain, the caves also hold an irreplaceable heritage for the knowledge of climate change, biodiversity, and even for the future exploration of other planets, but they remain highly vulnerable to pollution. , overexploitation of the soil and mismanagement.
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