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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Oops. CBD went into force in 1993. What
can I say? It is Monday morning.<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Ellen Paul
Executive Director
The Ornithological Council
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ellen.paul@verizon.net">ellen.paul@verizon.net</a>
"Providing Scientific Information about Birds<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET">"
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET"</a>
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On 3/31/14, 10:16 AM, Ellen Paul wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dirk -<br>
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I agree with you entirely. The effect of Nagoya will be
contrary to the original purpose of the CBD. Lofty goals (in
my opinion) get mangled in implementation, much as has been
the case with CITES and, in the U.S., ESA foreign listings. <br>
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There is a time lag at work here. CBD occurred in 2000. Prior
to 2008, money was flowing freely. Easy credit, lots of cash
in the system...for context, remember that in 2002, the
five-year plan to double the budget of the National Institutes
of Health had just been completed and there was a plan to
double the budget of the National Science Foundation over the
next five years. <br>
<br>
Governments are no longer willing or able to provide
sufficient funding, not that funding was ever ample. But did
anyone predict that things would become this dire? <br>
<br>
So here we are in a situation where natural history
collections are starving for basic operating funds. Smaller
collections are closing and even some of the most important
collections are lacking curators or collections managers or
adequate number of staff. <br>
<br>
Where do you get funding if not from government sources? Well,
of course some have endowments and if you are lucky enough to
be in the U.S., where the stock market has rebounded, the
endowments are generating a decent amount of funding. At the
moment. <br>
<br>
So that leaves private sector. Which can loosely be divided
into two categories - rich people (and corporations,which in
the U.S., are people) who can be persuaded to make donations
and private industry who are interested in the properties and
genetic basis of those properties of the materials in the
collections. If you have to make a deal with "the devil" as
corporations are painted - just to keep the doors open and the
lights on and the collection functioning and accessible - then
isn't that the lesser of the two evils? <br>
<br>
We've been here before:<br>
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href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/science/biologists-sought-a-treaty-now-they-fault-it.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/science/biologists-sought-a-treaty-now-they-fault-it.html</a><br>
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And I won't go into details, but ornithologists in the U.S.
(and Canada, Mexico, and Japan) can attest to the way that the
noble goal to protect birds has led to a system that - for
scientific research - is often implemented in a manner that
actually does nothing at all to protect wild birds. <br>
<br>
Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. <br>
<br>
I personally found this section of the White House memo to be
most amusing:<br>
<br>
<i>Clearly describe how the agency will apply its scientific
collections policy as a term and </i><i><br>
</i><i> condition, as appropriate, of providing funding for
the acquisition and stewardship of </i><i><br>
</i><i> scientific collections that are being managed by a
third party or that the agency does not </i><i><br>
</i><i> own, but supports or for which it has oversight
responsibilities. </i><br>
<br>
Yes, there are occasional little dribbles of funding from one
agency or another for specific projects, but even in the best
of times, did any federal agency support basic stewardship
costs for the collections managed by third parties (the museum
community)? <br>
<br>
<br>
Ellen<br>
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"Providing Scientific Information about Birds<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET">"
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On 3/31/14, 5:59 AM, Dirk Neumann wrote:<br>
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maybe I read this wrong, but in the light of the forthcoming
ratification of the Nagoya Protocol and Access benefit
sharing (which the US is not going to ratify), <i>"making
collections more accessible to [...] researchers,
including non-Federal scientists, to maximize public
benefit"</i>, establishment of a clearing house and
cooperation with the Smithsonian (that established already
voluntary ABS-guidelines) directs between the lines towards
"making collections available for applied research and
product development". <br>
<br>
While national governments of some industrialised countries
aim to push collections towards commercialisation, Natural
History Collections have been identified as potential
loophole in the ABS system and some NGOs accused collections
for biopiracy if cooperating too close with industry.
Non-commercial benefits and capacity building are widely
ignored among policy makers, and shortcoming for global
biodiversity research may be assumed (see Buck and Hamilton
2011). Vogel (2013) summarises some of the issues that may
be anticipated for collections rather cynical but clear.<br>
<br>
With ratification of the Nagoya Protocol later this year
(the EU & Member States will ratify in few weeks
completing the quorum that enforces the NP), access,
accession, transfer and sharing of samples will become more
difficult, and I doubt that this agrees with the original
intention of the CBD to conserve global biodiversity and to
promote biodiversity research ...<br>
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Dirk<br>
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Am 26.03.2014 21:43, schrieb Bentley, Andrew Charles:<br>
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