E.O.Wilson's comment?

[Jim Croft]

There are efforts underway to actuall raise the funds to do it.  Have a
look at teh All Specie project at:

http://www.all-species.org/

jim

> At least in A Global Biodiversity Map, Science, Vol 289, 29 September 2000
> p. 2279.
> "What is lacking and needed now is a concerted effort, comparable to the
> Human Genome Project (HGP), to complete a global diversity survey--pole to
> pole, whales to bacteria, and in a reasonable short period of time."
>
> At 10:59 PM 2/5/01 +0200, Niklas Wahlberg wrote:
> >Hello,
> >     A while ago somebody on this list (I think) mentioned that E. O. Wilson
> >had said that the next megaproject of human civilization, after the human
> >genome project is completed, should be to document the number of species on
> >this planet. Can anyone tell me the source of this comment? Thanks!
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Niklas