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<p class="MsoNormal">I hope this email finds you well. I’d be ever so grateful if you could spare a few minutes of your time to complete this survey please.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>‘From Blue Iguanas to Blue Vervain: Sharing the colonial histories from the UK Overseas Territories'</b> is a collaborative project is funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Natural Environment Research Council
(NERC) as part of the call: “Hidden Histories of Environmental Science: Acknowledging legacies of race, social injustice and exclusion to inform the future”.<o:p></o:p></p>
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As part of this project, <b>we would like to gather UK overseas territories data held in natural science collections around the world, to share with people living and working where the data originated</b>. This data can then be more widely accessed to facilitate
public engagement and biodiversity conservation.<o:p></o:p></p>
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The project is led by the UK Centre for Hydrology & Ecology with partners at the National Trust for the Cayman Islands; The Montserrat National Trust; Meise Botanic Garden, Belgium; Leeds Museums and Galleries; and the UK Overseas Territories Conservation Forum.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please click on this link to access the survey: <span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:#777777">
<a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flmgnaturalsciences.onlinesurveys.ac.uk%2Fblue-iguanas-to-blue-vervain-uk-museum-survey&data=05%7C01%7Cjab292%40connect.yale.edu%7C6bb9782037934446db3908da7ae0533b%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C637957401319539054%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=XhCXm%2BbQyI2RbI8UaztUg2TLJ1nhV2pysSTAm6rftnQ%3D&reserved=0">https://lmgnaturalsciences.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/blue-iguanas-to-blue-vervain-uk-museum-survey</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The survey will be open until the end of September.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Do contact me off list if you have any questions: <a href="mailto:rebecca.machin@leeds.gov.uk">
rebecca.machin@leeds.gov.uk</a> (I shall be away from my computer for much of August so may not be able to respond quickly, however).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you very much for your help.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Rebecca<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:243.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Rebecca Machin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:243.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Curator of Natural Science</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:gray">Leeds Museum Discovery Centre | Carlisle Road | Leeds | LS10 1LB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:gray">0113 3782109 | Reception: 0113 3782100<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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