Some criteria for a protected area...
As you heard Dr. Craighead before mention, there are several different ways you can think about in planning a protected area. One of them might be using umbrella species which he's working on. We're working on the model of looking for areas of high biodiversity, or hot spots, as he mentioned, or areas of high endemism- -That is, animals that are found only there and nowhere else in the world -- and we want to protect these reservoirs of genetic diversity.
As I said, again, we are collaborating within the museum, including scientists from all the departments, from entomology to mammalogy to anthropology and between folks from the American Museum of Natural History and the Missouri Botanical Garden and between American scientists and Vietnamese researchers and colleagues. Again, I think this is the way we should be working together to solve these problems.
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