The Science Media Centre after ten years: article in the Lancet. International network in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Japan. Australia and NZ seem to have a more active approach to online news and blogs.
The Council of Canadian Academies have published Canadian Taxonomy: Exploring Biodiversity, Creating Opportunity. Very interesting reading on science/biodiversity/taxonomy policy /.....
This report of the Expert Panel on Biodiversity Science provides an excellent view of the importance of biodiversity; the consequent value and role of taxonomy; the Canadian situation in terms of research, collections and information; current gaps, and indications of future needs and development. It does not go as far as proposing priorities or actions, or strategic goals, but suggests that Canada could become an international leader in the field. It will be interesting to see how this is followed up and whether the UK/EU can develop a similarly crisp analysis.
