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As Brazil Defends Its Bounty, Rules Ensnare Scientists

Date: August 28, 2007

Author: Larry Rohter

QUOTE: Marc van Roosmalen is a world-renowned primatologist whose research in the Amazon has led to the discovery of five species of monkeys and a new primate genus. But precisely because of that work, Dr. van Roosmalen was recently sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison and jailed in Manaus, Brazil.

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