Collecting Permit Ideas

[Jim Taylor]

My experience with Brazil a few years ago was pleasant.  The Embassy in Wash
DC said I wouldn't need a permit for non-commercial numbers.  However, the
USFW refused to OK specimens unless I had a BRAZILIAN permit and was able to
fill out a form on each individual bug identifying it to SPECIES.

The permitting problem we have is with OUR government.  Before we left for
Brazil, a friend (with the Federal government), advised  me to return on a
Sunday and smuggle what I wanted in without declaration.  Of course,
ownership after smuggling is an ongoing  and unacceptable danger, and I
ended up spending three weeks picking up bugs, admiring them, and leaving
them.

Jim Taylor
-----Original Message-----
From: Esther Cornelius <JayAndEstherC at webtv.net>
To: leps-l at lists.yale.edu <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Date: Thursday, July 16, 1998 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: Collecting Permit Ideas


>Jim : having delt with some Brazillian cops, (I know i'm taking
>liberties to extrapolate) I'd say Go through the American embassy by way
>of some sustainable agriculture device. There's a big green movement in
>brazil, and the cops there are(were) a closed socioty. Having delt with
>louisiana Pacific Logging, I'd say, they dont want tourism and they have
>money to get the laws they want. But since many Brazillian politicians
>hav even less scruples than American ones, that may be an option. Bill
>