The way I see it, van Roosmalen is an incredible scientist with a true concern for conservation. However, his strong character and total disregard for bureaucratic policies made him an easy scape goat for ambitious politicians. We live in a world where if you have monkeys in your private sanctuary that you’re trying to protect, you need to deal with the tedious paper work for them; you cannot act as if you’re above the law, even if you’re doing it with the very best of intentions.

why would he even go to court in first place? He didnt steal any government property, the equipment was a gift from a British TV company and that wasnt biopiracy, it was doing research and they werent “exploiting” the amazon, he was doing work to show reasons to protect it!

God, i hate governments. It always seems that they’re always out torturing so and so, stereotyping or discriminating against one race or another, spending thousands of dollars on parties while their country burns and everything they once stood for is destroyed. That and wasting time persecuting an innocent researcher.