Collecting Fishes for Science An African View
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Collecting Fishes for ScienceAn African View
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• Ethics
• Common sense – health and safety
• Collections and ‘Bioprospecting’
• Biodiversity Informatics – “knowledge repatriation”
Checklist
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Ethics
Have you packed your “code of conduct”? All life is precious (In Africa) Fishes are a valuable renewable natural resource – “food” Respect African culture – it is different,
and usually more apt for the circumstance!
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Fish and Fishing are an integral part of African culture
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Common sense
Natural waters in Africa are dangerous diseases – the germs & bugs are
nasty! crocodiles are sneaky hippos bite anti-personnel mines hurt dangerous trash is everywhere spines, razor edged plants, etc
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• Work with local partners• Permits generally are necessary• Local officials are control freaks – prepare well in
advance• Local permission (courtesy) is essential –
respect local customs and protocols• Plan to share equitably• Ensure knowledge repatriation• Ensure long-term repository – museums focus
change with time (universities are not long-term repositories)
Collections
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Bioprospecting
Be Careful of this tag – developing nationsare alert and reacting
Check the legal requirements have clear (written) understanding with partners
Permits to cover “tissues” – be open ALWAYS voucher properly ALWAYS lodge vouchers in open access collections
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Biodiversity Informatics
• Africa is biodiversity ‘rich’ but ‘knowledge poor/deprived’
• Africa’s scientific biodiversity resources are scattered in external institutions
• How do we ensure these resources are (i) available to African researchers/science, and (ii) address historical disadvantages?
• Modern information technologies and information systems hold the key!
• I believe fair partnerships and effort from all parties is necessary
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Biodiversity informatics is to:
collect,capture,store,analyse,synthesise,report,use and share
Biodiversity information so as to exploit the natural relationships in the information.
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Two Data Streams
Specimens Species
Collections Research
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SpecimenStream
Museum specimens
biodiversity database linked to GIS(e.g. Specify)
Synthesis (e.g. Ecological Niche
Modelling)
Application(e.g. conservation planning)
GBIFGlobal Change
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African Nodes of GBIF
Advances in African Biodiversity Informatics
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• Created by MRAC African Zoology Department• To facilitate access to collections (in line with
Belgium signatory to CBD• Promote organise and disseminate information on
African biodiversity• Facilitate access to biodiversity data banks• Disseminate information on the collections through
internet and “an interface” (portal)• Help African countries in the inventory and sustainable
management of their biodiversity, in particular by sponsoring study visits of African scientists
MRAC African Biodiversity Information Centre
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AllCatfishSpeciesInventory
SpeciesStream
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Tree of Life web projectSpecies Stream
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FaunafriSpecies Stream
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Photo: Ernst Swartz
Species Stream Encyclopedia of Life
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Online Literature
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The IUCN Pan African Freshwater Biodiversity Assessment
• Molluscs• Crabs• Odonata• Aquatic Plants
• East Africa• Madagascar
• West Africa• Central Africa• North Africa• North East Africa
• Freshwater Fishes
• Southern Africa
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Barcode of Life
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New African RWG partners
Existing African RWG
African FISH-BOL Participating Countries
FISH-BOL in Africa SA iBOL 2008
Existing African RWGNew African RWG partners
25 Regional Working Group members from
16 countries
679 of 8720 species already barcoded (8%)
Support from CBOL, CCDB (& their sponsors), IUCN, SARCF (NRF), WIO project & CoML
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So, lets get going!
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