[Taxacom] collecting permits: India

[Robin Leech]

Someone should tell them, that unless a species is uniquely
different, no amount of photographs of any quality will help
ID species - genera, yes, species, no - of spiders, or most
insects.
Robin Leech
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donat Agosti" <agosti at amnh.org>
To: "'taxacom'" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 12:07 PM
Subject: [Taxacom] collecting permits: India


> Here a follow up on access and exchange of Indian (insect) species
>
>
> Entomologists stifled by Indian bureaucracy
> http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080305/full/452007a.html
>
> 'Biopiracy' concerns thwart insect hunters.
> K. S. Jayaraman
> The Western Ghats mountains in India are rich in insect life.DINODIA
> An international collaboration to study insects in the Western Ghats
> mountains in southern India has been unable to get off the ground because 
> of
> government concerns over biopiracy.
> (.)
> Krishnamoorthy Venkataraman, secretary of the NBA, says that the rules aim
> to fight biopiracy and not to stop basic research. "There is no 
> restriction
> on collection or export of a few specimens for research," he told Nature.
> "But exporting 200,000 specimens is not permissible." The NBA encourages
> Indian scientists to send photographs or digital images to collaborators
> abroad instead of actual specimens, he says.
> Dharmarajan hopes that the Indian government will follow the example of
> Brazil, which repealed its initially tough rules for biological specimens
> after protests by scientists.
>
>
> Donat
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