[Nhcoll-l] collaboration with governemental institutions on collecting new specimens

Fri Sep 16 02:42:38 EDT 2022

Hi Lennart,

Within the EU, regular monitoring requirements exist for forestry and 
fisheries, likely within the agricultural sector and certainly for eg. 
Natura2000 and FFH areas. At the global level, FAO requires countries to 
regularly monitor and report on their forests worldwide. Likely such 
requirements also exist in other sectors.

While observations and measurements are made and samples are taken on a 
regular basis, too often these don't find their way into well curated 
natural science collections or to GBIF. Nevertheless these vouchers and 
data are essential for monitoring species, genetic and phenotypic 
diversity as well as their dynamics over time.

In addition, the EU has now a supply chain law. For this to be of 
impact, it will be necessary to develop effective certification and 
forensic genetics/isotope/etc. processes. For such approaches to work, 
existing monitoring schemes and datasets need to be developed into 
supporting high-quality reference datasets. Experience shows that 
without a full chain of custody including well-maintained and -curated 
vouchers it's not possible to achieve the statistical resolution and 
reliability that is needed to keep the error rates to levels that are 
acceptable for large-scale operation and impact.

There is a good reason why the FSC International, in cooperation with 
several large institution, including Kew Botanical Gardens, is building 
a worldwide, voucher-based reference collection fit for use for a range 
of analytical approaches (https://worldforestid.org/our-team/).

Cooperation between natural science collections and governmental 
agencies is essential for all of these biodiversity conservation 
applications, which still have ambitious basic research requirements to 
get them off the ground.

This is an important topic and following-up on Dirk's suggestion for an 
offline exchange I would like to add SPNHC's Biodiversity Crisis 
Response Committee's interest and expertise.

Best wishes,

Jutta

On 15.09.22 11:18, Dirk Neumann wrote:
> Hi Lennart,
> 
> there is a specific EU-focus in your question, as the current 
> EU-conservation laws, and it might be worth pulling this topic to the 
> CETAF legs and regs group.
> 
> A key question is article 5, number 2 a in EG No. 338/97 
> <https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:31997R0338>, 
> which addresses the capture and collection of species from the wild; 
> another the 'keeping' and 'offering'. EU Member States have divergent 
> national interpretations here, and especially in the light of (growing) 
> joint biodiversity monitoring efforts within the EU, it would be useful 
> to get this tabled on EU level.
> 
> Let's talk offline if you would be interested.
> 
> With best wishes
> Dirk
> 
> 
> Am 15.09.2022 um 10:37 schrieb Lennart Lennuk:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I am meeting governmental institutions to discuss how they can help 
>> collecting new specimens / samples for natural history collections.
>>
>> Does anybody have a collaboration going on with governmental 
>> institutions on such topic?
>>
>> This far I have some ideas how to collaborate with governmental 
>> institutions:
>>
>> -scientifical work of different species and species groups (eg 
>> collecting during monitoring fieldwork, investigating infections)
>>
>> -hunting (collecting voucher’s like animal blood, skin, fur, feather
>>
>> -Inspection (collecting dead animals found during ispection)
>>
>> -Accidentally dead animals and notifiyng about them (collision by 
>> traffic, building)
>>
>> I am open to additional ideas.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Lennart Lennuk
>>
>> Head of collections
>>
>> Estonian Museum of Natural History
>>
>> +372 6603404, 56569916
>>
>>
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