Biodiversity research is frequently positioned at the interface of multiple junctures, such as science and the private sector; biodiversity rich but technologically poor and biodiversity poor but technologically rich nations and regions; the urban and rural; and between the economically and politically powerful and the disenfranchised (Cunningham, 1996; Dove, 1996; Macilwain, 1998; ten Kate and Laird, 1999).