Firmas para salvar el Herbario de Utrecht!!!!

Hola! os adjunto el texto d un mail q acabo d recibir, q explica con detalle la importancia de este centro que quieren clausurar.

La firma sólo te llevará 1 minuto, es importante!

HERBARIUM UTRECHT

firma aquí

Dear Friends,

Sorry for cross-posting, but I´d like to bring the following to your
attention.

On 26th March 2008 the University Board of Utrecht University, The
Netherlands, informed the employees of the Utrecht Herbarium that as of 1
June 2008 the Herbarium is to be closed and, with immediate effect, access
to the collections, from national as well as international workers, is to
cease.
This must not be allowed!

*Closure of the Herbarium is a disaster for current national and international research!

*Closure of the Herbarium is a disaster for any future research!

*Closure of the Herbarium contradicts the Biodiversity Covenant signed by
the Netherlands which ensures the accessibility of data relating to biodiversity (either under Dutch ownership or under Dutch guardianship)!

*Closure of the Herbarium is a disaster for all the botanical and ecological
research taking place in South America, especially Suriname, Guyana, French Guyana and the Amazonian basin.

*Closure of the Herbarium is in effect a denial of the cultural-historical
value of this Herbarium to The Netherlands and Suriname!

*Closure of the Herbarium is the start of scientific deterioration and
wrecks the near-finalized plans for the creation of one Dutch Centre for
Biodiversity [NCB].

What can you do?

Please sign the petition at HERBARIUM UTRECHT

and forward this email toothers.

Thanks!,

Pieter

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Dr. Pieter B. Pelser

Miami University - Botany Department
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