Like others ecosystems, caves are today under threats: pollution, invasive species, quarrying, and vandalism. Nowadays in Cuba, some caverns still hold valuable evidences of our past, large deposits of bat droppings still constitute a prized fertilizer and many rural communities depend for cave water supply, touristical or mineral exploitation. Even the caves of the Majana, Majayara and Yara region are within the recent protected area Majayara-Yara, they experiment some of these situations. This area possesses numerously caves with aborigine evidence, an attraction for speleoturism. Just Perla del Agua and San Justo caves are local monuments. 41 invertebrates species and 9 vertebrates species are registered for these caves (Armas & Alayón, 1984, Silva, 1988; Peck et al, 1998), 20 of these species are Cuban endemism and just one Chiroptera species has been evaluated for the IUCN. Caves invertebrates species frequently are scarce studied and it’s no surprise to find new species for the science under some kind of threat. Few publications summarise Cuban cave information showing insufficient divulgation efforts, particularly, little is known about the present conservation status of these caverns. The environmental education program and the management plan of the karts environment of the protected area need to be strengthened.

Caves are unique and fragile ecosystems with a high biodiversity in Cuba and to conserve them, it’s necessary to increase their knowledge and to involve the community on it. The project will work for the preservation of Cuban caves supported by update research and effective education, concerning the cause and prevention of cave damage or loss of cave-inhabiting, including cooperation with national conservation bodies. We’ll provide update data about the conservation status, fauna and value of these caves to the community. The principal educative efforts, not only from the cave conservation point of view, but the Cuban nature conservation, will be with professors, a key group in the formation of young generations, as well as to involve tourist guides and other key persons of the community. We’ll stimulate to “learn doing, learn reflecting” so the people will be critical and judicious persons on the local problems. The results will contribute to scientific publications, pamphlets, cave fauna guides, databases, events and will tribute to PhD thesis and further ecological studies. The information will be useful to state some troglobite species at the IUCN list, to declare some of these caves as local monuments and to enhance the protected area management.