Collecting Permit Ideas

Liz Day lday at iquest.net
Fri Jul 17 00:04:52 EDT 1998



> >you arrive at your jungle lodge, then, the butterflies are already caught,
> >mounted, labelled, and for sale (at a fraction of the international market
> >price), and all you can do outdoors is take pictures of them, and go on the
> >guided tours of the little shop where the lodge employees take the
> >butterflies THEY catch, to mount and label them for sale. When you leave,
> >you have a bill of sale for every specimen you take with you. That is also
> >a win-win scenario, involves no permitting process at all, AND reduces the
> >incentive for poaching. Any serious objections?

What fun would that be?  Doug, you know better than that.
 
Liz Day


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