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on the Pantanal. Obviously ties persist. Jordan heads a commission on wetlands & the Pantanal. M.T. Will collaborate. [[circled]] 7 [[/circled]] MT says that Paulo Nogueira Neto will certainly leave SEMA in the autumn when all the ministeries change their heads. Apparently he finally has a govt. he cannot work w/. "He's been head of SEMA for 11 years & is tired." Maria Teresa needed to get to the Attorney General's office & gave as a ride to the Zoo. [[circled]] B [[/circled]] [[double underlined]] ZOO [[/underlined]] - Entered; Looked for Director; Person who seemed to be Director turned us over to Veterinarian & Biologist. We later find out that the Director is recently appointed but has been with the zoo for 28 years & started out a sweeper. [[end page]] [[start page]] 4 March [[underlined]] Tues [[/underlined]] The biologist is young & speaks fractional English. Jim translates for me. [[circled]] 1 [[/circled]] We offer education exchanges [[circled]] 2 [[/circled]] Collaborative projects. [[circled]] 3 [[/circled]] Training in animal mgmnt & vet. medicine. [[circled]] 4 [[/circled]] whatever else Lou Ann has batches of stuff she turns over. The Director sits in for a while & then leaves: The biologist opens up and is totally demoralized. [[circled]] 1 [[/circled]] Zoo run by zoo-botanical garden under Ministry of Agric. of city. [[circled]] 2 [[/circled]] They have no budget & no access to money [[circled]] 3 [[/circled]] No leeway to do extra projects. Everytime we make a suggestion they respond with "Yes, but..." It gets frustrating because it's as though we cannot get thru to them.