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February 27, 2002

All Species Foundation Signs MOU With The Hawaii Biological Survey

In February, All Species Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Hawaii Biological Survey with a mutual goal of "completing the describing and formal naming of all multi-cellular organisms in the Hawaiian Islands within five years".

This kind of strategic partnership is one way ALL can foster its 25-year goal of providing knowledge of all species for all people. ALL sees this partnership as an early model of what needs to happen, and should happen all over the world.

(Note: "All Species Hawaii" fits nicely into one of the three categories of ATBIs presently being discussed by the All Species Science Board. These are 1) All Species Research & Development ATBI, 2) All Species Rapid ATBI for immediate conservation purposes, and, 3) All Species Foundation partnership with existing ATBIs and start-ups.)

Background on the Hawaii Biological Survey

http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/hbs3.html

Since its foundation in 1889, the Bishop Museum has been in the forefront of enumerating Hawaii's biota. One hundred years later, the Hawaii State legislature formally mandated the Hawaii Biological Survey as a program of the Bishop Museum and gave it the task of collecting, inventorying, data basing, and making available to the Public, the results of surveying Hawaii's fauna and flora. The natural sciences collections of the Bishop Museum serve as the State repository for biological specimens. They comprise over 4 million specimens of Hawaiian plant and animal species.