<font face="arial" size="2"><p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">Forwarding from SPNHC President Linda Ford, to SPNHC members and other natural history friends:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">Please see the following message, including the attached joint statement that SPNHC endorsed with 58 other (so far) signatories on the issues of Access Benefit Sharing (ABS) obligations on digital sequence information (DSI).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">SPNHC, along with other societies, is still working to get our voice heard on these issues.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; color: #44546a;">Linda S. Ford</span></strong><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; color: #44546a;">, Ph.D.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">Thank you very much for your organisation’s support of the joint stakeholder statement on the imposition of ABS obligations on digital sequence information (DSI).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">This has received a lot of support from many different stakeholder organisations and we have to date 58 signatories, including public and private sector organisations, academic and scientific institutions, data repositories and collections at international, regional and national level, from Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">Attached is the final version with the names and logos of signatories. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">It would be extremely helpful if you could send this statement to your relevant government authorities ahead of the SBSTTA meeting the first week of July, and disseminate this widely.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">We are also in discussion with the Convention on Biological Diversity secretariat to see if they can help make the paper available through more official channels despite there not being an official call for submissions.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">We will be posting on the paper on social media as well and will send you the posts so that your organisation can re-post to your networks.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">As there are other organisations interested which need more time to approve endorsement of the paper, we will be issuing a second edition with (hopefully) additional logos, to distribute at the SBSSTA meeting itself.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">Thank you very much for your support . We hope that this collective effort will help ensure that the views expressed in the statement will be taken into account by negotiators at the SBSTTA meeting.</p>
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