International Bat Night If you are near Makarska on August 30, stop by the presentation center "Adrion srce planine" to celebrate International Bat Night. You can find the details here.

New system, Crnopac Cave system! Croatian cavers woke up today with good news. 😀 Tonight the Oasa pit was connected to the Cave system Kita Gaćešina - Draženova puhaljka! The merger resulted in a new system, which will be called the Crnopac Cave System. The system has a total length of 41,299 m (length will

The pit Nedam - new locality record for the Meštrov's Leech Meštrov's Leech (Croatobranchus mestrovi) was found in the Lukina jama—Trojama cave system (-1 431 m) in 1994, and since then has been found in four other deep pits in the Northern Velebit: Slovačka jama (-1 320 m), Velebita cave system (-1 026 m), Nedam

2nd Dinaric Symposium on Subterranean Biology in Postojna, Slovenia We are pleased to inform you and invite you to the "2nd Dinaric Symposium on Subterranean Biology", organized by the University of Ljubljana and the Notranjska Karst museum from Postojna. The symposium will be held on the 18th and 19th of October 2019 in Postojna, Slovenia.

2nd Biospeleological Expedition – Pelješac 2019 – short report The 2nd Biospeleological Expedition - Pelješac 2019 was finished on May 1st, and now, after preliminary processing of the samples, we can announce the first results. Field research was carried out in three terms: November 13 - 21, 2018, March 25 - April 7, and April

Encyclopedia of caves, 3rd Edition The 3rd edition of the Encyclopedia of Caves was printed. On 1250 pages rich in illustrations and photographs it brings information and details on different aspects of cave exploration and cave knowledge. Everyone interested in geology, climatology, biology, hydrology, archeology, paleontology, or speleology can find a lot of interesting texts.

Two new subterranean gastropod species from Croatia Paladilhiopsis insularis and Plagigeyeria jalzici - their size is like the match head, they have a whitish shells and spend all their lives in groundwaters/caves. They are found only in Rudnica VI near Ogulin and probably their distribution would be limited to Rudnica VI as this cave is

Lecture "International Speleological Expedition Mt Sedom 2019, Israel" Salt, sand, and Sodom - caving below (every) sea level "International speleological expedition Mount Sedom 2019" From February 22nd to March 4th, 2019, the "Israel Cave Explorers Club" and the "Israel Cave Research Center" from the "Hebrew University of Jerusalem" from Israel, and the speleological club "Sofia"

The exhibition of cave-dwelling spiders “HiddenLife” in Barcelona If you plan to visit Barcelona this summer, we recommend you to visit the exhibition“HIDDENLIFE - Shedding light on the World's darkest biodiversity hotspot”, in which more than 100 endemic species of cave-dwelling spiders from Dinarides are presented. Martina Pavlek and Tin Rozman have prepared exhibition. The

Lecture „Evolution in the dark“ On Monday, June 3rd, on the premises of the Croatian Biospeleological society, Lomnička 3, Helena Bilandžija, PhD, will give a talk about the formation of a new cave biology research group at Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Department of Molecular Biology. She will present some of her previous research that led to