Harrison Institute
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Founded in 1930, the Harrison Institute is a
Mission
The Harrison Institute seeks to promote and facilitate biodiversity conservation through:
- Collaborative scientific research
- Training staff and students from UK and foreign institutions
- Promoting international scientific networks
The Harrison Institute provides training for counterparts from a range of Eurasian and African countries. Capacity building and skills development are offered in a series of subjects including project design, field survey techniques, analysing data, preparing scientific reports and publications and the conservation and management of zoological collections.
Zoological collections
The Harrison Institute is home to over 50,000 scientific specimens. Its collection includes 33,000 recent and
Expeditions
In the last 50 years the Harrison Institute has organised or participated in over 75 field surveys and expeditions to 36 countries in 5 continents. Each has been concerned with an aspect of natural history and was part of a wider programme of conservation or wildlife studies involving scientific institutions from the host country.
History
The Harrison Institute was founded by James Harrison in 1930. Based at Bowerwood House in Sevenoaks, some 40 km from central London, the Institute originally focused on the study of British and Palaearctic birds. In 1971, its zoological collections were recognised as being of national and international importance and it became a charitable trust (No 268830). In 1986, it was further recognised as a Registered Scientific Institution by the then Department of the Environment (now the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), a UK Government Department and was listed under CITES.
Under the leadership of David Harrison (James's younger son), the Institute increasingly focused on the study and conservation of mammals. Conservation initiatives were concentrated in Arabia and scientific publications were primarily concerned with the Old World tropics and subtropics. More recently, the institute has been involved in research, training and scientific expeditions to East Africa, the Indian Subcontinent and South-East Asia. It also researches the Tertiary and Quaternary UK mammal faunas.
See also
References
- ^ Stanzl, Eva. "Wien wird zum Vogelparadies". Wiener Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 27 December 2022.
- Bates, Paul; Harrison, David (2002). Myanmar: an illustrated guide to the country and its wildlife. ISBN 0-9517313-2-7.
- Bates, Paul (1997). Bats of the Indian Subcontinent. ISBN 0-9517313-1-9.
- Harrison, David; Bates, Paul (1991). The Mammals of Arabia (2nd ed.). ISBN 0-9517313-0-0.
- Harrison, David (1971). The Mammals of Arabia. Volume 3: Lagomorpha, Rodentia (1st ed.). ISBN 0-510-39952-5.
- Harrison, Jeffery; Grant, Peter (1976). The Thames Transformed. ISBN 0-233-96840-7.