The Scientific Value of Collections.
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THE SARAWAK MUSEUM JOURNAL |
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Title :
The Scientific Value of Collections. |
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Author :
Earl of Cranbrook |
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Abstract:
The global action plan ‘Agenda 21’, adopted by the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development (UNCED) at Rio de Janeiro in 1992, prompts a significant element of English Nature’s (EN) corporate plan. Together with Convention on Biological Diversity, Agenda 21 calls for participating countries to establish national strategies to inventory and understand their own biodiversity and develop programmes to conserve it for the future. The UK response was published in January 1994, as a set of white papers of which two, the strategy for sustainable development1 and the biodiversity action plan2 ,are of particular significance in guiding the work of EN. In support of the task to define ecosystems and designate sites, and to categorise rare or endangered species in need of conservation, staff of English Nature (as of any other national conservation organisation) depend on systematics knowledge and reliable identifications of the British wildlife resource.
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| DOI: XXXX |
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How to cite:
Earl of Cranbrook. (1996). The Scientific Value of Collections. The Sarawak Museum Journal, L (71): 73-86 |
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