Costa Rica trip

[John Shuey]

In every issue of the News of the Lepidopterists Society, there's an add form a
Costa Rican who says he can get collecting permits for people.  I don't have this
stuff at work, but maybe someone can look up that info and pass it on.
 
John
 
woody.woods at umb.edu wrote:
 
> This may not be what you hoped to hear, but if you are not collecting for
> documentable research purposes, I think you may find that you can't get such
> permits. I went through the process a couple of years ago with the help of OTS
> (Organization for Tropical Studies), of which my university is a member, and
> had to provide a detailed account of planned research and much other
> information in Spanish-- and this was only for the collecting permit, and
> didn't cover permission from landowners or reserve directors. The export
> permit is another matter altogether, and requires that you have a collaborator
> attached to the University of Costa Rica and be willing to donate duplicate
> specimens to their natural history museum. Endemic species cannot, as I
> remember, be exported in any case.
>
> This may be disappointing, but on the other hand Costa Rica's relatively
> strong wildlife conservation policies are one reason the place is so worth
> visiting! Bring back pictures instead!
>
> Woody
>
> Deedra Hovey wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am (hopefully) going to Costa Rica in a couple of months. I was wondering
> > if is possible to get permits for collecting for a personal collection and
> > from whom do I apply to.
> >  (actually I want to collect beetles and frogs).
> > thanks
> >
> > ken hovey
> > hovey at earthlink.net
> >
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