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Taxonomic skills and products are essential for implementing sustainable development, including conservation of biodiversity and food security. Until the early 1990s, many taxonomic services were provided free of charge by expert institutes in Europe and elsewhere. Today, developing countries typically lack the ability to pay for such external taxonomic services and have inadequate and poorly resourced local taxonomic capacity. For many economically and ecologically important organism groups, many regions are totally lacking in trained taxonomists.
One way to overcome this problem was to create mechanisms whereby developing countries could pool, share and optimise their taxonomic capacity on a regional basis, an idea that gained support at an international, UK-sponsored workshop at the NHM in 1993. BioNET-INTERNATIONAL was established at the request of this workshop and began a programme of network establishment and capacity building.
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| Cryptzona chenui: a new pest or a native species? |
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