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Science 28 April 2000:
Vol. 288. no. 5466, p. 592
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5466.592
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ENDANGERED SPECIES:
CITES Puts Off Plan to Hasten Shipments

Wendy Williams

NAIROBI, KENYA--In a setback for scientists, an international trade body has shelved a proposal to simplify research on endangered species. The proposal would have waived an often-cumbersome permitting process for handling samples of everything from hair and DNA to cell lines derived from endangered species. But unexpected opposition from the United States and several developing countries at a meeting here last week torpedoed the proposal until at least 2002.

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