posted Jan 31, 2014, 8:44 PM by SOS SaveOceanScience
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The following is listed in Wikipedia
Human Action
Name Country Date Perpetrator Reason and/or Account of Destruction | Libraries of Fisheries and Oceans Canada | | Canada | 2013 AD | Government of Canada headed by prime minister Stephen Harper | Alleged digitization effort to reduce the nine original libraries to seven and save $C443,000 annual cost.[43] It is alleged that only 5–6% of the material was digitized, and that scientific records and research created at a taxpayer cost of tens of millions of dollars was dumped, burned, and given away.[44] Particularly noted are baseline data important to ecological research, and data from 19th century exploration. |
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