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Dear all I have just received the following query (see below). ___________________ Dear Hannah, I'm hoping you can help me with some information or point me in the right direction to find it. I am student in my final year of study in the BA Conservation and Restoration programme at the University of Lincoln. This past summer, I worked with Conservation Team at the Lesvos Petrified Forest Geopark in Greece. I was inspired to do some research, so am now I am writing and researching for a dissertation about the current conservation practices used in Geoparks in the UK, with a focus on fossil and palaeontological material. At the moment I am looking for information about: - fossil hunting - fossil laws or codes - fossil trading: legal and illegal - vandalism of sites - statistics if there are any - fossil conservation issues - outdoor collections of specimens I do have a copy of the Scottish Fossil Code, so am wondering if England has developed anything like it. If you are you able to suggest places I could search for such information, it would be a great help to my research. Many thanks, Andrea Walker ________________________ Any suggestions for references to geoconservation would be appreciated. I have flagged up the Geol Soc's 'The History of Geoconservation' and Nudds & Pettit's Value and Valuation as well as the following references in the geological curator: Volume 2 No 6: Conference report - Geological conservation (1979) Volume 4 No 4: Geological conservation and the nature conservany council (1985) Volume 4 No 6: Fossil collecting and conservation in West Dorset (1985) Volume 6 No 2: Papers from the GCG Meeting - Museums and fossil excavation (1992) Volume 7 No 1: The conservation of historically important geological and geomorphological sites in England (1999) Volume 7 No 3: Conservation of important geological sites (2000) Volume 7 No 6: Papers from the GCG seminar on the Commercial Trade: Ethics versus science (2001) Many thanks Hannah