Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 07:21:00 -0500 From: "Carlo A. Balistrieri" <cabalist@globaldialog.com> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg2737$foo@default> Subject: Re: new species or hybrid
>The second situation is the almost exclusively negative effect (for
>the scientist who requires the specimens) of the (wrong and
>contraproductive) application of CITES regulations to herbarium
>specimens, which is only possible because some weird legal eagles
>have defined the transport of herbarium specimens on loan from one
>address to the other as "trade" although no change of proprietary
>status is involved whatsoever. This can (and IMHO must) be changed by
>a definitive statement in the CITES text that should a priori (i.e.
>without lengthy debates and tedious application paperwork if and why
>herbarium specimens are what they are) exclude material for purely
>scientific research. I know that there is quite a lot of fake "whale
>research" in countries where whale meat and other products (which
>are somehow always the waste of the "research" work) can be sold at
>good prices, but the situation with herbarium specimens is quite
>different. At least I do not know of any person who sells herbarium
>specimen derived products or by-products of herbarium specimen
>preparation.
We must recall (when railing against CITES) that there are exemptions for
registered scientific institutions/exchange and pre-convention specimens.
Most herbarium specimens that I've run across in my professional work with
CITES have fallen under the pre-convention rules and all that is needed is
documentation that should be in place anyway as part of the accession record
regarding date of collection, etc.
Carlo
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