Ian & all
Field guides for animal and plant identification are readily available
for everyone now. Who uses them? Only those who are interested. A bar
code device is unlikely to change anything and even if anyone could
easily identify any species, so what, a list of animal and plant
identifications on a site proposed for development is only a small part
of a report and not all there is for conservation purposes. And just
making identification of plants and animals easy is unlikely to make
people who are otherwise not interested, interested or have any
environmental empathy. A fail to see any real use of this other than
just as another catalogue.
Greg Little
Greg Little - Principal Consultant
General Flora and Fauna
PO Box 526
Wallsend, NSW, 2287, Australia
Ph 02 49 556609
Fx 02 49 556671
www.gff.com.au
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of Ian May
Sent: Thursday, 28 February 2008 7:04 PM
To: Birding-aus
Subject: BARCoding and BARC.
"The irony of it all" See reason No 7
http://www.barcodeoflife.org/barcode/batsbirds/literature/TenReasonsBarc
oding.pdf
Schooldhildren running around with an electronic field guide and a
handheld BARCoder? What role left for BARC?
===============================
www.birding-aus.org
birding-aus.blogspot.com
To unsubscribe from this mailing list,
send the message:
unsubscribe
(in the body of the message, with no Subject line)
to:
===============================
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.1/1302 - Release Date:
27/02/2008 4:34 PM
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.1/1302 - Release Date:
27/02/2008 4:34 PM
===============================
www.birding-aus.org
birding-aus.blogspot.com
To unsubscribe from this mailing list,
send the message:
unsubscribe
(in the body of the message, with no Subject line)
to:
===============================
|
