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>Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 11:42:13 -0800 (PST)
>From: Peter Bednedoff <bednekof at bcu.ubc.ca>
>Subject: Re: Galapagos crisis
>To: Dennis Paulson <dpaulson at UPS.EDU>
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>Dear conslinkers,
> By chance I was one of the people trapped inside the Charles
>Darwin Research Station when the fishermen set up barricades earlier this
>month. I can add only a few facts and opinions to the already depressing
>picture. 1) This was not the first time that the Research Station has
>been threatened. 2) On every occasion the local authorities have been
>conspicuous by their absence. 3) On every occasion the national
>authorities have made concessions to the fishermen. This precedent of
>rewarding threats has already led to serious threats to the biological
>integrity of the Galapagos and will probably lead to serious personal
>harm to the staff at the Charles Darwin Research Station.
>
>Sincerely,
>Peter Bednekoff
>Centre for Biodiversity Research
>University of British Columbia
>BEDNEKOF at BCU.UBC.CA
>
>
Tweeters, David Wilbur had the good idea of reporting this crisis to a
Seattle Times reporter. Anyone with any connections to anything should
pass this stuff on, as it really is an environmental crisis of the
magnitude of the social/economic crises that we hear about every day in
other parts of the world.

Dennis Paulson phone: (206) 756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax: (206) 756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail: dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416