Categories
News

Statement on Russian invasion of Ukraine

BCA (in conjunction with BCRA) absolutely deplores the aggressive invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the subsequent war which was entirely fabricated by the Russians without justification. In a civilized society, war has no place in resolving disputes and we stand shoulder to shoulder with the Ukrainian people and in particular their caving community in […]

Categories
News

CRoW Update: Representations to Welsh Government

Following our partial victory in the BCA judicial review, our representations on CRoW access have now been lodged with the Welsh government, NRW and Defra. They make a broad case as to why caving should be treated with the same “equity” as other activities and should be recognised as coming within the right to roam […]

Categories
News

The Rescue

A message from the BCA Chair about the National Geographic documentary film about the Thai cave rescue. For anyone who has not seen the “The Rescue”, I can highly recommend it even though we know the outcome, the inside story the film reveals, is an inspiration in itself and created some goose bump moments when […]

Categories
News Y&D

New to Caving?

So you’re New to Caving? Congratulations! Your spirit of adventure is strong and you can look forward to your first adventures underground… If you’re interested in Caving, and would like to learn more or give it a try, then why not check out NewToCaving.com? The BCA runs NewToCaving.com as a resource for new cavers and […]

Categories
AGM News

Ballot Results

The results are in from the online ballot following the AGM. Errata: when this post was initially published Motion 2C was listed as having passed. In fact, having achieved <70% of the vote, it has not been passed. The full breakdown of the votes is available here. Thank you to all those who stood for […]

Categories
News

EuroSpeleo Protection Symposium

Due to Covid restrictions, the 6th EuroSpeleo Protection Symposium “Assessing, monitoring and protecting cave biotopes and geotopes through Natura 2000 or similar programs in Europe” will take place as a hybrid event from 26.10.2021 – 30.10.2021. A number of participants have to participate via online as we are not allowed to gather all registered participants […]