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Every day around the world, in jungles and urban areas alike, insect species and subspecies are becoming extinct. Every year scores of taxa are lost that have not even been scientifically discovered and documented. Thus, their extinction is unnoticed because their existence is unknown. They are unknown simply because they have not been collected and systematically identified. Without systematic taxonomy there is nothing. Without the collection, and exchange of specimens (information) there will be no systematic taxonomy. Without amateur collectors the majority of the undiscovered species/subspecies will vanish before they are discovered. Be it butterflies or moon rocks, collecting is the first step of access to all other scientific information –and protection.
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