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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>
<br>
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>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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>
<br>
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>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Ellen Paul
Executive Director
The Ornithological Council
Email: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ellen.paul@verizon.net">ellen.paul@verizon.net</a>
"Providing Scientific Information about Birds<a moz-do-not-send="true" 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, 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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