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NEWS & PRESS RELEASES
Nature and its elements were of great importance to Per Wahlström, preferably seen holistically - culture and nature. The interdisciplinary outlook and modern working methods, anchored in practicality and reality together with demands for high quality, which permeates the IK Foundation's operations, attracted Per greatly. With his direct and honest manner and his well-grounded ideas, he brought to the IK Foundation fresh competence and networks of great significance. He was one of the group who initiated the monumental task of publishing The Linnaeus Apostles - Global Science & Adventure. Fascinated by the apostles and the "Human spirit" which was central to their achievements, Per considered it important not only to document this but also to pass it on to modern man and to different cultures all over the world. As with any project of this size, there are always problems which have to be solved, and however difficult they have been over time, Per always adopted a positive and realistic attitude to new and innovative solutions, often with a liberating laugh! DEDICATION His far too untimely death after a period of illness meant that he was unable to experience the finished publication, nor will he be able to join in the IK Foundation's 20 year-jubilee in 2008. The IK Board of Directors and the Ambassadors for the publication of The Linnaeus Apostles - Global Science & Adventure have, therefore, decided to dedicate the publication to his memory as a "True Advocate for Nature and Culture". Lars Hansen Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief The official Ambassadors for the project The Linnaeus Apostles - Global Science & Adventure Ingvar Carlsson Former Prime Minister of Sweden Lars Gårdö Chairman Nordic 3i Olof G Tandberg Former International Secretary to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences |
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News & Press Releases  OUR PURPOSE Promoting Natural & Cultural History WHO WE ARE We are an international, independent learned organisation for promoting natural and cultural history. For more than two decades IK has worked for a better understanding of the natural and cultural history of our world by means of, among other things, field work, research projects, exhibitions and publications. As an independent and not-for-profit organisation - with a strong reputation for excellence, interdisciplinary thinking, in-depth knowledge and long-term results - IK continues to develop unique international networks of cooperation and finance in order to fulfil its mission. A mission in which we believe that it is the right of everyone to have access to good knowledge of both local and global natural and cultural history and that an interdisciplinary and historical approach to these subjects probably makes it easier to understand life as it is today and face the future - something that affects all of us on planet earth. PERMISSION Texts written in the IK Foundation's web site or press releases can be quoted freely - please name your source (SOURCE: The IK Foundation and/or www.ikfoundation.org). Editorial offices or editors who are interested in obtaining printed and/or digital press releases or high quality illustrations are welcome to Contact IK. It's also possible to chose images direct from IK Image Bank. CONTACT  Post The IK Foundation & Company P O Box 70 Whitby North Yorkshire YO21 1YD UNITED KINGDOM |
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