From: Stewart Brand <sb@gbn.org>
>A trend in recent field taxomony is training and employing LOCAL
>and often native talent (in Madagascar, New Guinea, etc.) to do
>the field science. This leads directly to local intellectual and
>community investment in protecting endangered habitat. And
>research money goes straight to the grass roots.
Nothing like local knowledge.
A common list topic here is "what sort of technical package could
be developed that could aid the third world." This usually take the
form of some sort of solar powered/windup wireless laptop. Ideal
for this sort of work.
>Also worth doing. And thoroughly complementary with biocensus
>efforts. The advantage, greatly sought, of living biocensus is
>learning the nature of relationship among species, which is partly
>lost in frozen sampling---you get statistical but not dynamic
>data.
Ecology, I word we don't here as often anymore. Although Bucky
would be pleased at how popular "synergy" has become.
Brian
Member:
Extropy Institute, www.extropy.org
Adler Planetarium www.adlerplanetarium.org
Life Extension Foundation, www.lef.org
National Rifle Association, www.nra.org, 1.800.672.3888
Mars Society, www.marssociety.org
Ameritech Data Center Chicago, IL, Local 134 I.B.E.W
ps thats "hear" of course....<sigh>
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