Taxacom: regulations affecting taxonomy/biodiversity research (was: Vanuatu export permits)

Sat Jul 20 13:36:03 CDT 2024

Ashley,

The paper will be mainly about how to regulate scientific collecting sensibly, not whining about what all is done wrong these days. Regulations and international agreements (Rio, Nagoy) will not go away even if they have more severe unintended consequences than positive outcomes.  It is great to hear that the right people are getting involved in Australia when deciding about ethnobotanical collecting.

We will probably mention examples of bad practice and how to do it better. But we will not include anything based on hearsay.

I am still lacking any examples for scientific collecting having resulted in the decline or extinction of species or populations. Does anybody know examples? Or examples that a distribution map or locality list has led to commercial treasure hunting. There must be documented examples out there because we hear this argument so often.
Cheers

Frank

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Hi Everyone,

I feel there are good reasons for regulating scientific collection of threatened species, and especially the publication of locality records for species threatened by wild harvesting. It is regrettable to create 'treasure maps'.

I also feel there are good reasons for such regulation of species of ethnobotanical significance and areas that have Indigenous land managers. In Australia, everywhere is owned by someone. Increasingly, the permit regulation process involves asking the right people the right questions.

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Ah - good idea to document crazy regulations affecting taxonomy/biodiversity research.

In Indonesia you need a research permit for anything you publish - whether you export anything or not (but apparently iNaturalist observations are ok, so if you post on iNat first and then publish, it's apparently acceptable - or maybe not, who knows?). But just publishing a new locality record or natural history note is NOT allowed.

This is really detrimental to research in Indonesia, as it simply frustrates people, so they may just stay away. The rules would be ok if they helped Indonesian research, e.g. by making it mandatory to have Indonesian partners involved (even that's dangerous on its own, as you would immediately invite freeloaders who want publications for not doing anything - which happened in some cases I know about).
It's also perfectly ok to regulate export permits and to charge for such permits, but prohibiting research just because it's research, is simply crazy, especially for non-commercial research like taxonomy.

Peter

> On Jul 19, 2024, at 23:48, Frank T. Krell via Taxacom <taxacom at lists.ku.edu<mailto:taxacom at lists.ku.edu>> wrote:
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> Hi John,
> Exaggerated fees are really frustrating. I am preparing a paper on regulations etc. affecting taxonomy/biodiversity research. Do you have a citable source for this fee? Or an official invoice or something that you could send me privately. I just have to make sure that statements and examples are backed up, otherwise I would shoot myself in the foot.
> Thanks
>
> Frank
>
>
> Dr. Frank-Thorsten Krell
>
> Senior Curator of Entomology, Editor-in-Chief
> Commissioner and Councillor, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
> Department of Zoology
> Denver Museum of Nature & Science

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