Kouta, I also would like to se a Global organization, but first we need to attract the attention of people in other areas of the world. We have a couple members from India who are not active. We have one from Malaysia, and a couple people from North America doing work in the East Indies. But overall ENTS is not well represented in other areas of the world.
Ed Join me at the Primal Forests - Ancient Trees Community at: http://primalforests.ning.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Kouta Räsänen To: ENTSTrees Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 9:10 AM Subject: [ENTS] Re: European Native Tree Society Ed, You have done great work with webpages! Websites about famous and historic big trees I will leave to Jeroen. He seems to be an first class expert in that area. I send further comments to you by e-mail. Actually I would be more interested in helping to start some kind of "global ENTS" than a local European one. I think it would be great to get tree and forest scientist and enthusiasts around the world into a single forum. Now our knowledge about forests and trees is quite restricted to those parts of the world from where we get information in the languages we understand. Take Japan as an example. Japan's forests and tree flora is very interesting and high class scientific work is made there, but there is not much literature in English. Many European/American tree books use another European/American literature as sources even when they tell about Japan, because authors cannot read Japanese. Of course, today many scientific articles are published in English. So, if we had some japanese people in the forum, even if they were not professionals, our understanding about tree/forest topic would increase for sure. Of course, some other problems would arise. For example, all the American members wouldn't like to receive massive amount of e-mails about trees of Russia, Japan, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, ... There should be some method for members to choose, from which area they want to receive posts. These are only theoretical speculations from my personal point of view. Kouta --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org You are subscribed to the Google Groups "ENTSTrees" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
