[Taxacom] FW: Released Friday 27 April - Discovering Biodiversity: A decadal plan for taxonomy and biosystematics in Australia and New Zealand 2018-2027

[Stephen Thorpe]

"He says Australia discovers and names around 2,500 new species per year—more than almost any other country in the world."

This sounds a bit dodgy. Someone "says" this, but where is the supporting data? ALMOST any other country in the world? "Discovers and names" is a bit rhetorical, there is no way to quantify "discoveries" other than by how many new species are named (and many of those will have been "discovered" long ago! I don't see that much coming out of Australia lately, at least not in entomology.

At any rate, I suspect the main reason for a combined Australia/N.Z. "decadal plan" (=begging bowl) is that N.Z. standing alone wouldn't exactly sound very impressive in terms of the facts and figures!

Stephen

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On Thu, 3/5/18, Geoff Read <gread at actrix.gen.nz> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Taxacom] FW: Released Friday 27 April - Discovering Biodiversity: A decadal plan for taxonomy and biosystematics in Australia and New Zealand 2018-2027
 To: "Stephen Thorpe" <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>
 Cc: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
 Received: Thursday, 3 May, 2018, 10:30 AM
 
 
 It means this
 group are doing their best to promote the taxonomy in
 which
 they have invested their careers to
 those who might have money to fund it.
 
 Might also relate factually to "He says
 Australia discovers and names
 around 2,500
 new species per year—more than almost any other country
 in
 the world."
 
 They trotted out David Attenborough yet again
 as the front man with public
 recognition.
 What a trooper he is to do this sort of thing repeatedly.
 
 Must name a species after him.
 
 Geoff
 
 On
 Wed, May 2, 2018 8:40 pm, Stephen Thorpe wrote:
 > See below. In this rhetoric-laden begging
 bowl, it is claimed "Australian
 >
 and New Zealand taxonomists and biosystematists are world
 leaders,
 > particularly in translating
 biodiversity research for public benefit"
 >
 > Can anyone translate
 that? What does it mean???
 >
 > Stephen
 >
 >
 > --- On Wed, 2/5/18,
 Dean Peterson <Dean.Peterson at tepapa.govt.nz>
 wrote:
 >
 >> From:
 Dean Peterson <Dean.Peterson at tepapa.govt.nz>
 >> Subject: FW: Released Friday 27 April
 - Discovering Biodiversity: A
 >>
 decadal plan for taxonomy and biosystematics in Australia
 and New
 >> Zealand 2018-2027
 >> To: "Dean Peterson" <Dean.Peterson at tepapa.govt.nz>
 >> Received: Wednesday, 2 May, 2018, 1:17
 PM
 >>