CAVING & SPELEOLOGY
CERS maintains one of the two active teams of cavers in China. Based at our Nature and Culture Conservation Center in Kunming at Yunnan University, this team has collaborated with fellow cavers and scientists from many countries, including Slovenia, France, the U.K., Romania, Bulgaria and Vietnam. Zhang Fan, who is also CERS China Director, leads the team. Zhang and CERS associate Liu Hong hold the Yunnan vertical depth record of 267 meters, set during one of their exploration trips. The team also helped organize and participated in China’s first international caving competition, held in Guizhou.