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EXPLANATION OF SURVEY |
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EXPLANATION OF SURVEY |
In 1993, several of the Pew Conservation Fellows formed a working
group on Ethics and Biodiversity Conservation in order to recommend new protocols
for researchers and host communities involved in the study and use of biodiversity.
The goal of the working group is to promote equitable, democratic and honest relationships
and benefits between the researchers who access, explore and study biodiversity,
and the local communities and peoples who protect, create and own biodiversity.
"The
Biodiversity Research Protocols" proposed by the Pew Conservation Fellows were
developed at a workshop supported by the Pew Scholars Program held outside Tucson,
Arizona in October 1994 and revised in spring of 1996. "The Biodiversity Research
Protocols" was approved by the Pew Fellows in Conservation and the Environment.
Over
a period of two and a half years (October 1993 - April 1996,) we contacted 226 organizations
whose activities had some relevance to the biodiversity research protocols. We requested
these organizations to send us existing guidelines which may be relevant to biological
and cultural research and prospecting. This directory summarizes the responses to
the survey in the format given below.