FOSSIL PROTECTION LINKS
Version 1.2.6 (June 13, 2001)
compiled by
W. Douglas
Boyce M.Sc,
P.Geo
Provincial
Paleontologist
Government of Newfoundland and
Labrador
Department of Mines and Energy
Geological Survey Division
Regional
Geology Section
Earth
Jonathan Sazonoff
Paleontology in the 21st
Century Workshop (Paleo21 - Frankfurt, 1997: An International Senckenberg
Conference)
Society for the Preservation of Natural History
Collections
Argentina
Protection of Palaeontological Heritage in Argentina
Dr. Susana Damborenea
Departamento
Paleontologia Invertebrados
Museo de Ciencias Naturales La Plata
Paseo del Bosque
s/n
1900 La Plata
Argentina
Tel-fax: 54-(0)221-4721676
E-mail: susanad@mmance.cyt.edu.ar Argentina has a set
of national and provincial laws, all of which forbid the commercialization of fossils from our
country. Nevertheless, we know that material from Argentina does reach illegally a number of
fossil dealers at home and abroad. Everybody should be aware that all fossil material from
Argentina on sale abroad has been somehow illegally smuggled out of the country. We are greatly
concerned about the increase in such practice, which is openly carried out mainly in countries
which have a legal trade of their own fossils. This encourages criminal practices involving
illegal collecting, marketing, theft, smuggling and eventually permanent loss of a significant
part of our national fossil heritage. We welcome any cooperation from those countries to stop
such practices, which are also beginning to damage local scientific and educational interests
in many ways.
The Argentine Palaeontological
Association (APA) is a learned society founded 45 years ago by professional
palaeontologists. Most of the efforts of this society are dedicated to the editing and
publishing of the quarterly journal Ameghiniana, yet the matter of fossil protection has long
been among its objectives.
From the scientific point of view, the APA has issued a set of
Ethical Rules to be followed by foreign institutions and scientists
carrying out studies in our country (or on Argentinian material).
The APA has been recently involved in several issues connected to
fossil protection. Two are important enough to deserve international
attention:
- The Triassic continental site of Potrerillos in Mendoza
Province (known worldwide by its mammal-like reptiles, besides other
vertebrates, plants and invertebrates) was seriously threatened by
the building of a new road. The APA and other palaeontological
institutions proposed the study of an alternative route to save the
site. For the first time in Argentina the protection of the
palaeontological heritage has been taken into account by all parties
concerned, and we hope most of the site will be preserved.
Un
nuevo tramo de ruta destruirá yacimientos únicos de
fósiles: Arrasará con fósiles de 240 millones de
años en la precordillera de los Andes · También se
perderá parte del patrimonio arqueológico · La
construcción del dique Potrerillos obliga a desviar la ruta
que conduce a Chile
- An important palaeontological and archaelogical collection stored
and offered for sale has been recently seized by police action in
Buenos Aires.
Argenti
ne sting nets 12,000 archeological pieces
Secuestraron quince mil piezas
arqueológicas: Encontraron vasijas, cerámicas, puntas de flecha, fósiles y
textiles · Algunos objetos son peruanos
Asociación Paleontológica
Argentina
Maipú 645 1º piso
C1006ACG Buenos Aires
Argentina
Tel-fax: 54-(0)11-4326-7463
E-mail: secretar@apa.inv.org.ar
Australia
Commonwealth
State
Queensland
South Australia
Victoria
Western Australia
Belgium
Brazil
Federal
National Parks Act (1998)
Gem and Mineral Federation of
Canada
Provincial/Territorial
Fortune Head Ecological Reserve
Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve
- American scientists are
digging up a priceless Canadian heritage site
- A Question of
Intellectual Sovereignty
- Arctic Fossil Forests
- Arctic fossil
forest sparks U.S.-Canada research war: Canadian researchers say a team of U.S. scientists may
be destroying a priceless heritage site on Axel Heiberg Island
- Arctic Ice Blues
- Arctic trees last
45 million years
- Argonne in the
Arctic
- Axel Heiberg
Island Exploration
- Axel Heiberg Island
fossil forest site
- Axel Heiberg Island
fossil forest site
- CANADA'S NORTH: OUT OF SIGHT, OUT
OF MIND
- Canadian Scientists Glower as
U.S. Scientists Play in Frozen North
- Changing Models for
Science in Northern Canada
- Comments on University of
Pennsylvania Research in the Fossil Forest of Axel Heiberg Island
- Composition, structure,
dynamics, biomass and climate of Eocene fossil forests, Canadian High Arctic
- Composition, Structure, Dynamics,
Productivity and Climate of Eocene Forests of the Canadian High Arctic: Comparing
Reconstructions from Field Measurements and Nearest Living Relatives
- Damage feared to fossil
forest
- ENV100Y
Environment - Notes on the Video: Search for a Tropical Arctic
- Forests and
Trees: How the north was won
- Fossil Forest
- Fossil forest a national
treasure: Conservationists are demanding protection for a deserted Arctic island. Ed Struzik
finds out why.
- Fossil
forest fray: Director says U.S. project misrepresented by media
- Fossil Forest of Axel
Heiberg Island Backpack, Nunavut Territory, Canada
- Fossil Forests of Axel Heiberg
Island
- Frozen out of the
Arctic: THE BIG CHILL / Lack of federal cash for Northern research has become too big a burden
for scientist James Basinger, world-known for his work on a 45-million-year-old fossil
forest
- GN agency does
face-saving tour of Axel Heiberg: Nunavut government officials are to prepare a report on what
to do with the Axel Heiberg fossil forest
- Inspectors look at ways to protect
fossil forest from American workers
- Kite
Aerial Photography of the Axel Heiberg Island Fossil Forest
- Looking north
for Canadian unity
- Minister to inspect endangered
fossil forest
- Minister to inspect endangered
fossil forest
- North to Prehistoric
Forest
- Nunavut: FAST
FACTS
- Nunavut set to approve
fossil forest dig's second year: The Nunavut Research Institute has informally told a group of
U.S. researchers that they will get permission to continue excavating at a unique fossil forest
on Axel Heiberg Island
- Ottawa: Nunavut is
responsible for Axel Heiberg forest - Heritage Minister Sheila Copps says it's up to Nunavut to
protect sites like the Axel Heiberg fossil forest
- OTTO FIORD: ELLESMERE ISLAND, NWT
- PENN Fossil Forest Project
- Research institute gave
licence to controversial U.S. project: The Nunavut Research Institute handed out a research
licence to a team of U.S. scientists who may be violating Canadian conservation guidelines for
a unique site on Axel Heiberg Island
- Scientists battle over turf in Arctic
land that time forgot: Magnificently preserved forest may help scientists solve the riddle of
climate changes
- SCIENTISTS
EXPLORE THE ANCIENT TROPICAL FOREST OF THE HIGH ARCTIC: Scientist Jim Basinger is continuing
research at the site of 45-million-year-old forest in the Canadian Arctic
- Secrets of an
Ancient Forest
- Structure and biomass of a
polar-latitude Eocene forest from the Canadian Arctic
- SUSTAINABILITY: A GLACIAL
PERSPECTIVE - Lessons of a Forty Million Year Old Forest
- The Farthest North Fossils
- The forest of the past: Jane
George on Axel Heiberg Island
- The Oldest Wood in the
World
- Tourists also inflict
damage on fossil forest
- U of S scientist gives cold shoulder to
American research project
- U.S. scientists excavating fossil
forest
- Wood
Can Last for 40 Million Years
China
Archaeoraptor liaoningensis
Original Articles
Subsequent Information
Commentary from
Creationist Sites
Note: The links immediately above are included only for
the sake of completeness. See Arguments against
Creationism, "Creationism Is Not Science", EVOLUTION AND CREATIONISM and On Evolution: A
statement by The So ciety of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Egypt
Estonia
France
Greece
India
Indonesia
Italy
Japan
Namibia
Phillipines
Portugal
Republic of Ireland
Russia
Slovakia
South Africa
Federal
THE NATIONAL MONUMENTS COUNCIL
West Coast National Park
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Swiss Association of
Crystal-searchers, Collectors of Minerals and Fossils (SACMF)
United Kingdom
England
Scotland
United States of America
American Geological Institute - Government Affairs Program
Federal
Bureau of Land Management
(BLM)
- AMATEUR FOSSIL
COLLECTOR IS SNARED IN U.S. STING: POWHATAN RESIDENT GETS PROBATION, FINE
- A summary of BLM Wilderness Laws
- BLM fines business for
illegal dinosaur dig
- BLM
Montana/Dakotas - Fossils and Artifacts on Public Land
- BLM Montana/Dakotas - Rockhounding on Public
Lands
- FOSSIL COLLECTING &
ARTIFACT HUNTING in Alaska
- Fossil Collecting and Artifact Hunting
(Colorado)
- Fossil
Collection on Public Lands (New Mexico)
- Fossil Collecting on Public
Lands (Wyoming) - Adobe Acrobat Reader File
- Fossils On America's Public
Lands
- Government Official-Bureau
of Land Management
- Management for the Big Cedar Ridge Fossil Plant Area in the Bureau of Land Management's
Worland District, Bighorn Basin Resource Area, Washakie County, Wyoming [microform] :
environmental assessment WY-015-EA5-37 / prepared by the U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management, Worland District, Bighorn Basin Resource Area
- Manual for Paleontological Resource
Use
- Mill Canyon
Dinosaur Fossils
- Natural Resource
Alternative Dispute Resolution - Case Studies (Bureau Wide - Collection of Fossils)
- Paleontological Resources
(Alaska)
- PALEONTOLOGICAL RESOURCES
(California)
- Paleontological Resources (New Mexico)
- PALEONTOLOGICAL RESOURCES OF THE
NPR-A PLANNING AREA: AN OVERVIEW
- Paleontological Resources Use Permit
Application
- Paleontology in BLM and
Collecting Policies
- Press
Release - March 1999 - U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Virginia
- PUBLIC LANDS ADVISORY COMMITTEE
SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT TO THE OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS OF THE California Federation of Mineralogical
Societies November 14, 1998
- Rock Hounding on Public Lands
(Wyoming)
- Rules and
Regulations (Trilobite Wilderness Area, Marble Mountains, California)
- The National BLM Wilderness Campaign
- Volunteers needed to
assist at Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite
Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
Department of the Interior (DOI)
Forest Service
Fossil
Preservation Act of 1996 (HR 2943)
National Park Service (NPS)
Dinosaur National Monument
Petrified Forest National Park
Vertebrate Paleontological
Resources Protection Act
Geotimes
High Country News
Public domain or collector's item? The fight over valuable fossils on public lands
State
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Florida
Illinois
Kentucky
Michigan
Minnesota
Montana
New Mexico
New York
North Dakota
Ohio
South Dakota
Tennessee
Utah
Wyoming
- 1998 State of Wyoming
98LSO-0307.E1 ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL NO. HB0154: Fossil protection act-study
- 1999 State of Wyoming
99LSO-0321.E1 ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL NO. HB0085: Fossil protection act-study.
- 1999 State of Wyoming 99LSO-0321,
HOUSE BILL NO. HB0085: Fossil protection act-study
- Dinosaur Cops: Channel Four -
Press Release
- Dinosaur
Cops - Images
- Flying
Cop Protects West's Fossil Heritage
- Fossils Being Plundered by
Thieves
- Fossils
Plundered, Destroyed: In Vast, Arid West, Thieves Loot Ancient Bones
- Fossil thieves plundering the
West - Black market: As sales flourish, the looters move in
- H.B. No. 0154: Fossil
protection act-study
- H.B. No. 0085: Fossil
protection act-study
- In vast, arid West, fossils being
plundered, destroyed by thieves
- Operation Rockfish
- Senate considers taxing
fossils sent out of state
- Skeletons in Their
Closet: The feds had a bone to pick with this fossil-hunting family
- The Bust Was a Bust
- Thieves plundering
(f)ossils in vast, arid West: As protection efforts stall, growing black market fueling
demand
The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
Note: The first version of this
document was produced on June 15, 1999. SPECIAL THANKS to Jonathan Sazonoff, who provided many of the links dealing
with stolen fossils.
