Forum Herbulot 2014 statement on accelerated biodiversity assessment (July 2014)

"Forum Herbulot [FH] is a research initiative, founded in the year of 2000, with approx. 150 members from 42 countries.... FH supports the Bouchout Declaration (http://bouchoutdeclaration.org/) for open access to biodiversity data and thus strongly encourages opening for free use the online access to key biodiversity data including sequences (along with access numbers on BOLD and GenBank / EMBL / DDBJ published in the original descriptions), taxonomic names, descriptions, occurrence data, images, ecological dates, habitats, biological traits and data...."