DOES SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND TAXONOMIC STUDIES HELP CONSERVATION OF NATURE?

I have been actively participating in a couple of Non Governmental Organization [NGO] in Protecting Environment since about 1986. Since then I've come across of many environmentalists and scholars of Nature Studies. Out of these people, I've got to know that only a handful of people DID something to protect nature, but non of the taxonomists have done anything good for environment except getting their post graduate degrees to join a mission abroad or to find better job opportunities using their study records.

After all these years I've come to a conclusion that it is not the scholar that helps nature, but it is the common citizen who is aware of environmental destruction who helps protect nature.

This is open for you ideas and lets make a change today to help protect nature.

Nayana Wickramasinghe
WildWorldWatch
2014