[Taxacom] Collecting Samples From Another Country

[Jason Mate]

In Spain a permit is necessary but never given, not to mention that the permit requires a that a list of species sampled be given a priori and the date and locality. This permit must be repeated for each province. Hence nobody bothers.

Best
Jason

> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:26:40 +0100
> From: omeuceu at gmail.com
> To: lev.can at gmail.com
> CC: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Collecting Samples From Another Country
> 
> Good morning,
> 
> 
> 
> As I have a high interest in Diptera and I am in the diptera.info
> forum, I would like to know if it is possible to spread this info in
> diptera.info forum because there are several persons that can be
> warned about this situation. I would like to know how can we make a
> permission request to collect in Turkey.
> I also know that in Spain a permission is necessary to collect anything.
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Jorge Almeida,
> Viseu - PORTUGAL
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/superegnum
> 
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Levent Can <lev.can at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I wanted to inform you all about some incidents happened here in Turkey.
> > Unfortunately, researchers from the Netherlands and Spain have been arrested
> > by customs and police officers for collecting plant materials without a
> > legal permission. The media here in Turkey, followed these events with high
> > interest and I would say that such events are quite trendy in these days.
> > Today, newspapers reported that a group of entomologists from Czech
> > Republic were arrested at the Turkish border. Reported is that they tried to
> > escape with more than 6000 specimens.
> >
> > Of course, this series of events wouldn't be a big deal if the folks from
> > the Netherlands weren't caught with the last remaining 57 bulbs of a highly
> > threatened endemic Fritillaria species from Erzurum. The villagers now keep
> > an eye on every foreigner who tries to catch a butterfly or just want to
> > smell a beautiful rose. It is hard to work on the field even for us as
> > "local" researchers, without being disturbed by villagers or even officers.
> >
> > Lev
> >
> > --
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