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Message: <blockquote data-quote="deborah4" data-source="post: 892627" data-attributes="member: 29880"><p>Not wrong but maybe there's a blurring of intention in some taxonomic decisions (or at least appears to be) and the article makes some relevant comments about DNA etc. which (perhaps not altogether unfairly) challenges some of the taxa decisions made in recent years.  However, what makes it so bizarre reading is the idea that species and taxonomy can be re-interpreted into some kind of monetary system and that argument used to challenge conservation efforts - I'm not sure what the point is unless of course we could simply print more birds (regardless of specie split) if there's a low level of production or reduce overall number by raising the interest rates in the ones we have left.  I'm not an economist but surely creating more denominations in a particular currency doesn't increase or lessen the monetary value of existing denominations (even though you might end note production eg. of £5 notes and introduce them as coinage which could be a subtle way of hiding inflation by stealth!).  Purely economic perspectives hardly have a track record of doing much for conservation or habitat protection.</p></blockquote><p></p>