Ayalon cave in Israel is saved from submerging! Very nice news! Ayalon cave in Israel was saved from submerging! The effort and letters of support from many Israeli and international scientists, among others CBSS, paid off and the planned submerging of the cave as part of a larger hydrotehnical intervention was cancelled. Ayalon cave is
The field survey at the Paklenica National Park, part 1 On July 28th and 29th, 2021, we spent at the Paklenica National Park taking the coordinates of the new unexplored caves and pits that we plan to explore in a field survey at the end of August 2021. Stay tuned!
The book „Caves of the Island of Mljet in pictures and words” has just been published thanks to the long-standing cooperation between CBSS and the National Park Mljet Mljet National Park The book contains the knowledge and results of research in the caves of Mljet coming from different research fields such as geology, geomorphology, archaeology,
The start of the project Inventarisation of cave fauna in selected caves in the municipality of Rakovica and biospeleological monitoring of Gornja Baraćevea špilja cave This year, in cooperation with the Public Institution Barać Caves, we will monitor cave funa in the Gornja Baraćeva špilja cave and carry out fauna inventory in Velesova jama, Jama pod
25th Anniversary of the Croatian Biospeleological Society The Croatian Biospeleological Society was founded on February 21nd, 1996. Thanks to all members, all other speleological associations, scientific institutions, public and private organisations, and all others who have supported or participated in the projects of the CBSS! We hope and plan to celebrate this Anniversary during 2021!
Congeria kusceri is competing for "Mollusc of the Year 2021" Congeria kusceri - freshwater cave bivalve known from only a few localities in Croatia, needs your vote to win "Mollusc of the Year 2021". Video in English. Please vote on this link.
Nice speleological news from Croatia A connection was found between the Muda Labudova Cave (7,414 m length) and the Crnopac Cave System (44,822 m length), and now the longest speleological system in Croatia is 52,236 km long. Thus, it is now in 68th place among the world's longest caves. You can read more details in
Two new species of endogean and cavernicolous Paramaurops (Coleoptera) from Croatia Paramaurops alenkirini was described from the cave Golubinka u gaju (Vrgorac) and the species Paramaurops struyvei was found by soil washing on the Učka Mountain. According to this article, there are 4 species of the genus Paramaurops in Croatia, while 3 species of the
What connects Croatian sport legend Mate Parlov with the ground-dwelling spider Harpactea mateparlovi? The new species of spider Harpactea mateparlovi has “muscular” pedipalps, which distinguish this very tiny spider (7 mm) from other species in this genus. This characteristic reminded scientists of the Croatian boxer and Champion Mate Parlov. Harpactea mateparlovi was found in several
First species of testate amoebae described from karstic caves in the world - Centropyxis bipilata In the karstic caves of the Dinaric arc, scientists also conduct research on testate amoebae and other groups of Protista. These are very small organisms ranging from ten to a couple of hundred micrometers. They inhabit aquatic and terrestrial cave
