Maybe we need to foster some amatuer writers.
Oh yes, here's my $0.02 worth on Conservation. One of the biggest whingers
re the lack of conservation ideas in ANGFA (ACT) was also know to rape and
pillage various waters and sell his captives to pet/aquarium shops!
Another active conservationist (LOL) collects and keeps anything
illegal.....No names, no packdrill..............
Cheers
Merlin
At 14:38 5/02/98 -0700, you wrote:
>On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Adrian R. Tappin wrote:
>
>> Yes I would but I think it is more important for ANGFA to get back to
basics
>> and advise people how to keep, breed and care for their fishes properly
then
>> they wont have to go out plundering the natural environments all the time.
>> When was the last time you read a fishkeeping article in Fishes of Sahul.
>
>I agree fully, articles on keeping and breeding were the mainstay of
>early issues, nothing but for the most part. These days they are pretty
>rare. How do we encourage people to write? Maybe we need to offer a
>discount membership for their next years subscription if they get one or
>more articles accepted for publication? I think this is an important
>issue that would be good to get more feedback from. Anyone got any good
>suggestions?
>
>I'm sure the most common response is "I don't really know much about it",
>or "my writing skills aren't very good". Yunno, all you need to do is
>write down what you observe, what you did, what your experiences have
>been. You don't have to have kept and bred a species for 10 years before
>you can write about it. The editorial folks can help with writing
>skills.
>
>It would be interesting to analyse the authorship and nature of articles
>that have appeared in the journal over the years. How many authors do we
>really have? Hansen would have to be 40-50%, Leggett, Crockford,
>Armstrong, Bowman have all done several articles and probably account for
>over 80% of all articles published. You'd probably call me a
>"conservationist" (as well as other more colourful things), but all three
>of my articles have contained aquarium care as well as natural history
>information. :-)
>
>> I don't believe that there is a TRUE
>> Conservationist anywhere, most just pay lip service to the ideals of
>> conservationism or are radicals looking for a flag to fly while others jump
>> on the bandwagon because it has become fashionably to belong to a
>> conservation group.
>
>I think there are some people out there who work very hard to achieve
>their ideals, but you're right, most folks are just along for the ride.
>
>Tootles
>
>Peter Unmack
>
>
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