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LIPI SUPPORTS DEVELOPMENT OF WALLACEA BOTANICAL GARDEN
Ternate, Indonesia, Dec. 2 (ANTARA) - The head of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Prof. Umar Anggara Jenie, said his office continued to support the planned development of a Wallacea Botanical Garden in North Maluku.
"It will complement a number of botanical gardens managed by LIPI," Prof Jenie said on the sidelines of a pre-symposium on "Letter from Ternate" here on Tuesday.
The establishment of botanical garden would help conserve biodiversity in the region where Alfred Russel Wallace had conducted his research on biodiversity, he said.
Local people of Jailolo, North Maluku, have offered a plot of land measuring 100 hectares for the botanical garden, he said.
Alfred Russel Wallace, after years of observation in
Indonesia and while suffering from malaria in Ternate in 1858,
wrote the paper, "On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart
Indefinitely from the Original Type" which was read in the
Linnean Society in London on 1 July 1858 and mirrored
Darwin's heretofore unpublished thinking on the same subject.
This paper, describing his thought on the survival of the fittest
and natural selection as the basis of evolution, prompted
Darwin to write his better known "On the Origin of Species"
the following year.
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of this historic Ternate
publication and Indonesia's diversity as its stimulus, the
Indonesian Academy of Sciences (AIPI) - together with The
Wallacea Foundation (TWF), LIPI, and Conservation International (Indonesia) - will organize an international conference on Alfred Russel Wallace and The Wallacea, in Makassar, December 9-11, 2008.
"It will complement a number of botanical gardens managed by LIPI," Prof Jenie said on the sidelines of a pre-symposium on "Letter from Ternate" here on Tuesday.
The establishment of botanical garden would help conserve biodiversity in the region where Alfred Russel Wallace had conducted his research on biodiversity, he said.
Local people of Jailolo, North Maluku, have offered a plot of land measuring 100 hectares for the botanical garden, he said.
Alfred Russel Wallace, after years of observation in
Indonesia and while suffering from malaria in Ternate in 1858,
wrote the paper, "On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart
Indefinitely from the Original Type" which was read in the
Linnean Society in London on 1 July 1858 and mirrored
Darwin's heretofore unpublished thinking on the same subject.
This paper, describing his thought on the survival of the fittest
and natural selection as the basis of evolution, prompted
Darwin to write his better known "On the Origin of Species"
the following year.
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of this historic Ternate
publication and Indonesia's diversity as its stimulus, the
Indonesian Academy of Sciences (AIPI) - together with The
Wallacea Foundation (TWF), LIPI, and Conservation International (Indonesia) - will organize an international conference on Alfred Russel Wallace and The Wallacea, in Makassar, December 9-11, 2008.
