[Taxacom] FW: Save the Utrecht Herbarium (U)

[Schierenbeck, Kristina]

The situation with closing or underfunding herbaria is alarming!

Apparently we are not doing enough, or being effective at educating our
institutional administrators of the importance of biodiversity
collections to sustainability.  Our university, for example, is selling
itself as a "green campus" and leader in sustainability (with lots of
support funds) yet at the same time is refusing to adequately fund our
herbarium and other biodiversity collections.  

Other than to keep talking, anybody have any great ideas or solutions
out there?  I am pretty frustrated!


_____________________________________
Kristina A. Schierenbeck, Ph.D.
Professor of Botany
California State University, Chico
Department of Biological Sciences
Chico, CA  95929-0515
530.898.6410
kschierenbeck at csuchico.edu



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[mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Eric Gouda
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:54 AM
To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Subject: [Taxacom] Save the Utrecht Herbarium (U)

Worldwide the biodiversity knowledge centers are under pleasure and
before we know a lot of this knowledge will be gone.
Please take note of the message below and sign the partition.
Sorry, if cross posted

Thanks,
Eric Gouda

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>On 26th March 2008 the University Board of Utrecht University, The 
>Netherlands, informed the employees of the Utrecht Herbarium that as of
1 
>June 2008 the Herbarium is to be closed and, with immediate effect,
access 
>to the collections, from national as well as international workers, is
to 
>cease.
>:'( This must not be allowed! :'(
>
>Closure of the Herbarium is a disaster for current national and 
>international research!
>Closure of the Herbarium is a disaster for any future research!
>Closure of the Herbarium contradicts the Biodiversity Covenant signed
by 
>the Netherlands which ensures the accessibility of data relating to 
>biodiversity (either under Dutch ownership or under Dutch
guardianship).
>Closure of the Herbarium is a disaster for all the botanical and 
>ecological research taking place in South America, especially Suriname,

>Guyana, French Guyana and the Amazonian basin.
>Closure of the Herbarium is in effect a denial of the
cultural-historical 
>value of this Herbarium to The Netherlands.
>Closure of the Herbarium is the start of scientific deterioration and 
>wrecks the near-finalized plans for the creation of one Dutch Centre
for 
>Biodiversity (NCB).
>
>What can you do:
>    * Visit the website 
> <http://www.saveherbariumu.nl/>http://www.SaveHerbariumU.nl and sign
thepetition.
>    * Send this email to all your contacts.
>
>
>
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