[Taxacom] Is the Company "YourSpecies" in Barcelona for real or ahoax?

Tue Oct 22 15:05:27 CDT 2013

They (whoever "they" are) say that they will display on their website the
species that are "sold", but there is no link to any such "gallery". Maybe
the folks designing this website are the same as the ones trying to get
the US Healthcare website going ....

Other sites like this (pay for a name; sponsor a species) have links to
successes and pictures of them. Not this site, tho.

-Neal

On Stardate 10/22/13 2:41 AM, "Daniel Janzen" <djanzen at sas.upenn.edu>
wrote:

>Send them an image of a little black beetle from the middle of a New
>Zealand swamp, and see what happens.   Let us all know.
>
>Smile.  Dan Janzen
>
>
>On Oct 22, 2013, at 8:16 AM, Chris Thompson <xelaalex at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> All:
>>
>> I can not tell you whether this is an hoax or real,
>>
>> BUT I can tell you there have been various efforts to do the same in
>>the
>> past and ALL have been failures.
>>
>> Years ago, I did name new species after Paul Allen and Bill Gates
>>(google
>> "Eristalis gatesi" and see what you get), but while that did generate
>>lots
>> of publicity, etc., neither ever made a donation to the Smithsonian
>> Institution for Diptera research. [Yes, Bill and Melinda Gates have
>>made
>> contributions to the Smithsonian, etc., but not for Diptera Research!]
>>
>> The bottom line is few if any person is going to pay into this new
>>effort
>> for naming opportunities.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> from home
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ashley Nicholas
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 3:32 AM
>> To: TAXACOM (Taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu)
>> Cc: Gan Moodley
>> Subject: [Taxacom] Is the Company "YourSpecies" in Barcelona for real
>>or
>> ahoax?
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Can anyone tell us if the company “YourSpecies” in Barcelona for real
>>or a
>> scam? See below.
>> Regards
>> Ashley
>>
>> YourSpecies is a company that offers a new way to fundraise your
>>taxonomy
>> projects
>>
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>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> A new way to sponsor your research
>>
>>
>> Our goal is to help you sponsor your biodiversity projects.
>>
>>
>> YourSpecies is a private initiative that seeks to increase the funding
>>and
>> reward for new species discoveries.
>>
>> Our basic idea is to use the naming rights of the new species by
>>taxonomists
>> as a way to produce an economic benefit for them.
>>
>>
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>>ack/click?u=a68b98694fb2dea2f29b96dea&id=6da0b0bef2&e=221c6467fb>
>>
>>
>>
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>>g]
>>
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>>
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>>very
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>>will
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>>money
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>>
>>
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>>]
>>
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>>
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>>them
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>>keep
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>>
>>
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>>]
>>
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>>
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>>only
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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>>
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