Nature-Témoin: L'image-témoin : Karst et Archéologie 2025

L’image témoin, karst & archéologie 2025

(juin 2026)

Contenu

(auteurs : Alain Huot, Daniel Chailloux, Thierry Félix & Erik Van den Broeck)

Solidarity statement

In an official statement at the 19th ICS, the UIS Bureau, Past Presidents, and the UIS Advisory Board reaffirmed UIS’s founding values “We categorically condemn all wars and acts of violence, especially those affecting civilians. The UIS (International Union of Speleology) stands firmly against aggression, occupation, and any form of force that results in human suffering—regardless of geography, religion, or politics.”
Through our membership of the FFS (Fédération Française de Spéléologie) and UIS, Nature-Témoin is deeply saddened by the humanitarian crises in Ukraine, Lebanon, Palestine's Gaza and the West Bank, and we express our solidarity with all civilians affected. While our Federations are not political organisations, we are not morally indifferent. We do not engage in official collaboration with institutions that represent states involved in acts of aggression. We continue to foster scientific cooperation, peaceful exchange, and ethical responsibility, even in times of global conflict. Through all these efforts, Nature-Témoin supports UIS to remain a platform for ethical science, peaceful dialogue, and responsible global stewardship of caves and karst.
We recognize Palestine as a sovereign country and we explicitely confirm supporting their people and their speleologists and scientists.