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A Conservation Ethic and the Collecting of Animals by Institutions of Natural
Heritage in the Twenty-First Century: Case Study of the Australian Museum
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Ikin T
Animals (Basel)
2011[Feb]; 1
(1
): 176-85
PMID26486222
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Collecting of animals from their habitats for preservation by museums and related
bodies is a core operation of such institutions. Conservation of biodiversity in
the current era is a priority in the scientific agendas of museums of natural
heritage in Australia and the world. Intuitively, to take animals from the wild,
while engaged in scientific or other practices that are supposed to promote their
ongoing survival, may appear be incompatible. The Australian Museum presents an
interesting ground to consider zoological collecting by museums in the
twenty-first century. Anderson and Reeves in 1994 argued that a milieu existed
that undervalued native species, and that the role of natural history museums, up
to as late as the mid-twentieth century, was only to make a record the faunal
diversity of Australia, which would inevitably be extinct. Despite the latter,
conservation of Australia's faunal diversity is a key aspect of research
programmes in Australia's institutions of natural heritage in the current era.
This paper analyses collecting of animals, a core task for institutions of
natural heritage, and how this interacts with a professed "conservation ethic" in
a twenty-first century Australian setting.
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