A positive reason we need to get Congress to write a Science
Recover/Archive law or
the like. Allowing professional and organized groups to collect in an area
that is to be destroyed.

There are laws that closely match this - When a dig starts and fossils are
found and old civilizations and peoples - science is given
first rights and halts the dig until science has completed the task.
Normally it is a University or Museum that takes charge.

It seems to me that once the first chosen one has 'gleaned' the 'field'
then it should be opened up by them to clubs and interested individuals.

Then let the rip and tear go as it was. Not that one can tell at this time
if it were right or wrong, not knowing who, what, where, when at this time.

Martin


John Timmerman wrote:
>
> Example.
>
> The well known green tree snail, Papuina pulcherrima, is protected
> from American collectors but deforestation will more surely eliminate
> this and other animals from the planet than any collector's efforts.
>
> John Timmerman
> Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
>
>     -------------- Original message from Andrew Grebneff
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>     > >It is frustrating and maddening to see species pushed to the brink
>     > >by wasteful resource extraction or overharvesting or pollution.
>     >
>     > What is needed is armies of collectors going into forests slated
>     for
>     > logging (especially in Indonesia, which has a frightening and
>     insane
>     > amount of forest cleared every day), and collecting EVERY specimen
>     > they can find, both for scientific study and collectors. If they
>     are
>     > going to be destroyed anyway, at least something could be saved.
>     > Either that, or find some way to eradicate those responsible for
>     the
>     > logging.
>     > --
>     > Andrew Grebneff
>     > Dunedin
>     > New Zealand
>     > Fossil preparator
>     > Seashell, Macintosh, V! W/Toyot a van nut
>     > ‚ Opinions stated are mine, not those of Otago University
>     > "There is water at the bottom of the ocean" - Talking Heads
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