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Millennium Edition in THIS ISSUE Guest Editorial 174174 Profile: Mário A Volume 4 No. 3 ISSN 1027–4286 December 1999 Millennium Edition IN THIS ISSUE Guest Editorial 174174 Profile: Mário A. Calane da Silva 176176 Challenges facing southern African botany in the new millennium 177177 Colophospermum mopane isis thethe correctcorrect namename forfor thethe ‘mopane’‘mopane’ 188188 Threatened taxonomic knowledge: implications for method in ecology 196196 Southern African Plant Red Data List Update 200200 Herbaria and Red Data Lists 202202 SSC8 held in Mozambique 204204 SABONET Courses: Database & Herbarium Management 205205 Computerisation of southern African herbaria 207207 How to collect field samples for DNA analysis 214214 Checklist of Namibian Plant Species 216216 Second edition of IndexIndex herbariorum:herbariorum: southernsouthern AfricanAfrican supplementsupplement now available 217217 Recommended English names for trees in southern Africa 218218 Changes to the SAHDG Listserver 219219 Raven’s 7-point plan 219219 Gondwana Alive 220220 SABONET Web site now available 222222 From the Web 223223 The Paper Chase 226226 Book Reviews 232232 E-mail addresses 241241 Regional News Update 249249 FRONT COVER: Course participants and resource persons who attended SABONET’s Database and Herbarium Management courses in August and October 1999. Back in February 1990, the future for southern Africa was not what it used to be. While the Maputo meeting was concluding on 11 February 1990, Nelson Mandela was being released, and a new era for southern Africa was dawning. Much of the rest is already history. The advent of SABONET was possible not only due to regional changes, but as much due to major international events. Perhaps most significant was Guest Editorial the 1992 Rio Conference — the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development (UNCED). At Rio, many of the key instruments SABONET: Into the New Millennium necessary for the establishment of SABONET were created, in particular the Convention on Biological It is nearly 10 years since a group of southern Diversity (CBD) and the Global Environment Facility African plant scientists met in Maputo, Mozambique, (GEF). The CBD provided the policy framework and to discuss the future of botany in the region. Today the GEF the financial mechanism to put in place the we are in that future — and SABONET is the kind of network conceived in Maputo. The need for realisation of the vision conceived in the long and capacity building, infrastructure support and often pessimistic working sessions of the Maputo effective communication and team building meeting. throughout the region was re-affirmed at 174 SABONET News Vol. 4 No. 3 December 1999 subsequent seminars, workshops and conferences. is limited to dried herbarium specimens and ex-situ In 1993, at Kirstenbosch, Cape Town, a project collections of endangered species. The ultimate proposal was developed which served as the base goal must be for in-situ conservation, and most for a funding proposal. But as we soon discovered, importantly, systems of sustainable use of species it would be a long walk to the GEF. Fortunately, in and ecosystems for the benefit of all our people. 1994 USAID provided funding for a new regional networking initiative through IUCN’s Regional Office As Chairman of the SABONET Steering Committee, I for southern Africa (ROSA) in Harare. The USAID would like to use this opportunity to thank all who funding provided a kick-start for SABONET, giving have made this such a successful venture. We must the project the opportunity to test its motto thank, in particular, the donor agencies (USAID and ‘Learning by Doing’ in the three years prior to GEF GEF/UNDP) and the institutions in each of the ten funds being released in 1997. SABONET countries for their generous support. I am sure that you will all join me in thanking Christopher As the many articles published in SABONET News Willis and his small team (Nyasha, Carina, Tina and have reported, the project has developed rapidly Janice) for the tremendous dedication, and effectively since the first meeting of its Steering enthusiasm and energy they have contributed to Committee back in 1996. We now have a closely knit ensuring the joy and success of SABONET. team of committed players, from the young trainees joining their first workshops and field outings to the HAPPY NEW MILLENNIUM! K ‘old hands’ on the National Working Groups and the Steering Committee. We have been extremely Prof. Brian J. Huntley fortunate to have an exceptionally competent Chairman: SABONET Steering Committee coordination team, and over 100 enthusiastic and hard working members in our SABONET ‘extended family’. YOU KNOW YOU’VE HAD ENOUGH We will soon be in the new millennium, with great expectations to be met. The 1990s saw an OF THE ’90s WHEN ....... unprecedented era of socio-political transformation throughout the world, leaving it, we hope, a better You try to enter your password on the place for all. On the environmental front, it has been microwave. a decade of policy development - perhaps too much You haven’t played patience with real cards in talking and writing and not enough doing. So the years. challenge now is to implement the vast list of You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach international agreements, principles, guidelines and your family of 3. action plans. We should call for a moratorium on You e-mail your work colleagues at the desk next symposia and talk-fests. We need to get out of the to you to ask “Do you fancy going down to the conference rooms and into the laboratories, herbaria pub?” and most especially into the field. You chat several times a day with a stranger from your home country ... The primary goal of the CBD and GEF support is to You buy a computer and a week later it is out of make biodiversity conservation happen. Our date. approach, in SABONET, has recognised the need for Your reason for not staying in touch with friends scientific and technical capacity, and our emphasis is that they do not have e-mail addresses. has been on learning. Training has been a priority Your idea of being organised is multiple coloured and will continue to be within SABONET. But as we post-it notes. build our institutions — our herbaria and botanical You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead gardens — we must add value to effective of in person. biodiversity conservation on the ground. The world and future generations will not thank us if our legacy Source unknown. SABONET News Vol. 4 No. 3 December 1999 175 de Botânica do INIA e Chairman of the National PROFILE Plant Genetic Resources Committee. Mário A. Calane da Silva Quando se iniciou o Projecto SABONET é indigitado como Coordenador Nacional de mesmo para Moçambique. Foi praticante de futebol na categoria de Juniores no Clube1o de Maio onde foi vice-campeão e campeão nos anos de 1960 e 1961. Nas horas vagas gosta de ouvir música, ler e cuidar do jardim. Profile: Mário A. Calane da Silva ário A. Calane da Silva was born on 30 MJuly 1943 in the then city of Lourenço Marques, now Maputo, where he completed his primary and secondary schooling. In 1968 he worked as an employee for the Department of Finances. He reinitiated his studies in 1977 in the Faculty of Biology at the Eduardo Mondlane L Mário A. Calane da Silva. University, where he began his new duties as a Technical Assistant in Plant Taxonomy at the Perfil de Mário A. Calane da Silva LMU Herbarium of the same university. ário A. Calane da Silva nasceu a He successfully completed his courses in Biology M30.07.1943 na então cidade de Lourenço in 1981 and became Curator of the LMA Marques, hoje Maputo, onde fez os seus estudos Herbarium at the Instituto Nacional de primários e secundários. Em 1968 trabalhou Investigação Agronómica (INIA) in February 1982. como funcionário nos Serviços de Finanças. Reiniciou as suas actividades estudantis em 1977 In 1985/86 he completed postgraduate studies in na Faculdade de Biologia da Universidade “Rural and Land Ecology Survey” in Holland at Eduardo Mondlane, onde começou a exercer as the International Institute for Aerospace Survey suas novas funções de Técnico Assistente em and Earth Sciences (ITC). On returning to Taxonomia Vegetal no Herbário LMU da mesma Mozambique he was nominated to be Head of the Universidade. Department of Botany at INIA and Chairman of the National Plant Genetic Resources Committee. Terminou com sucesso o seu curso de Biologia em 1981 tendo iniciado as suas funções como When the SABONET project was launched in Curador do Herbário LMA no Instituto Nacional 1996 he was identified to become the National de Investigação Agronómica (INIA) a partir de Coordinator for the project in Mozambique. Fevereiro de 1982. He played soccer in the Junior category for the Em 1985/86 fez o Curso de Pós-Graduação em 1o de Maio Club where he was Vice-Captain and “Rural and Land Ecology Survey” na Holanda no Captain in 1960 and 1961. “International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC)”. Após o seu regresso a In his spare time he enjoys listening to music, Moçambique é nomeado Chefe do Departamento reading and working in the garden. K 176 SABONET News Vol. 4 No. 3 December 1999 Challenges facing southern African botany in the new millennium Networking has now been adopted by the region My opinion of the important challenges: as a way forward to documenting knowledge on • Educating everybody (including scientists) of botanical diversity. The different countries in the the value of systematics, and ensuring that region have limited economic power to go it systematics in turn is seen as not only an alone. The different countries now have the academic exercise, but that it also can be an ‘basic essentials’ in terms of field and herbarium applied science; taxonomists.
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