Dear Michelle,

Thanks a lot. I also fully agree.

Best
Martin

Zitat von Michelle.Price@ville-ge.ch:

> Dear CETAF Colleagues,
> The CETAF Executive Committee had its scheduled meeting this afternoon and
> discussed the request by Patrick Mráz for CETAF to 'express its opinion
> and also to appeal to Russian curators to press Putin to stop this tragedy
> .' We also thank those who were active in responding to this original
> message and to Alessandro for starting the drafting process.
> The current situation, unprecedented in our time, is a human tragedy on an
> unimaginable scale. It also represents a political and democratic crisis
> that threatens local, regional and even global stability. All at a huge
> cost in human lives as well as causing enormous human suffering, both now
> and for the weeks, months and years to come.
> We, as a community, should support our colleagues in any way that we can,
> but given the unstable circumstances and the unknown consequences that may
> befall people who go against such a regime, we are not in a position to
> ask them to endanger themselves at the current time.
> We may be more impactful if we issue a statement supporting a rapid and
> peaceful end to the conflict, in support of our fellow scientists and
> scientific institutions, and in sympathy for the immense suffering of the
> Ukrainian people.
>
> As a first draft, we propose the following short statement:
> We, the European Taxonomic Community, gathered around the European
> Consortium Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF), express our shock over the
> current situation in the Ukraine. Our community strongly condemns the
> invasion, which has had a devastating impact on the people and
> infrastructure of Ukraine. We express our sympathy for the suffering of
> the Ukranian people and deplore the ongoing loss of life.
> We denounce the deliberate destruction of civil infrastructure, including
> of scientific and research objects. We offer our support to our scientific
> colleagues who have been touched by the conflict and our fellow scientific
> institutions.
> We call for a rapid and peaceful end to the conflict.
>
> We will continue to work on this and will come back to you with a
> finalized statement as soon as possible, as well as on a way for people /
> institutions to support the statement, as not all may want to do so at
> this time.
>
> In the meantime, it would be useful if you could gather statements (links
> to them) from your national governements, national science foundations or
> other national bodies related to research / biodiversity that we may link
> to. To avoid overflow in peoples inboxes, please send them directly to me
> (michelle.price@ville-ge.ch) so I can collate them. Once collated this
> list of links to statements can be shared. It would also be good to know
> if your organistion or research organisation(s) that you have connections
> with in your country are involved in the Scholars at Risk (SAR) network (
> https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/).
>
> With my best regards,
> Michelle
>
>
>
> Prof. Michelle Price
> Head of Science
> Head Curator-Cryptogamy
>
> Tel. +41 22 418 5148
> michelle.price@ville-ge.ch
> Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Genève (CJB)
> chemin de l'Impératrice 1
> 1292 Chambésy-GE
> Switzerland
> www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/
>
>
> Notre environnement est fragile, merci de n'imprimer ce message qu'en cas
> de nécessité.
>                                                         Vice-Chair of
> CETAF - www.CETAF.org
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