More ATBI popularization

[Peter Rauch]

More popularization of species diversity and the ATBI...

In addition to the NPCA article I just referenced in a Taxacom posting,
see: "How Many Species Exist?", by Laura Tangley, in National Wildlife
[Federation], Dec (1998)/Jan 1999, pgs 32-33. "The question takes on
increasing significance as plants and animals vanish before scientists
[that's you, Taxacomers] can even identify them."

Quotable quotes include: "...when it comes to creatures that are not big
or fuzzy, what we don't know is a percentage somewhere in the double
digits" says Ed Theriot (Dir, Tex. Mem. Mus.); and, "We don't even know
enough to tell you what we don't know" said Diana Lipscomb of GWU.

The Smoky Mountain N.P. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory is cited as
well.

The NWF magazine has paid circulation of 520,000 (no doubt, there's some
overlap with the readers of National Parks (NPCA), but Taxacomers'
delights, and the ATBI, are getting some good (select) popular press
coverage in any case).

Peter