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liason between IBDF & CEPLAC. He joins us on the visit to CEPLAC. Headquarters are large modern expensive-looking with guards at entrance. We wait for > 1 hr to see our people & eventually Ben, Lou Ann, etc. arrive. And we all troop in to talk with the CEPLAC regional coordinator & one of their agronomists. Jim makes our case that [[strikethrough]] suggests [[/strikethrough]] GHT is endangered, unique to Bahia, should be conserved & that its conservation is impossible w/o CEPLAC's active involvement & support. I [[strikethrough]] hav [[/strikethrough]] ask him to emphasize [[strikethrough]] why [[/strikethrough]] that if we can support both preservation of mata & species conservation [[end page]] [[start page]] while undergoing development that it might be a unique opportunity for conservation & development interest to show that they can co-exist. Also a reporter present from their [[strikethrough]] newspap [[/strikethrough]] newsletter wanting to know why we were there. We requested that CEPLAC survey the owners of cacao plantations concerning available forest & known populations of L. chrysomelas. CEPLAC "barons" appear interested in cooperating. They already knew of the work with [[underlined]] rosalia [[/underlined]] near Rio. In fact, Satarnino & the CEPLAC people indicated that some people [[strikethrough]] might [[/strikethrough]] confused [[underlined]] rosalia [[/underlined]] w/ [[underlined]] chrysomelas [[/underlined]]. I think it's hardest for these people to understand that they are responsible for something uniquely Brazilian.