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- <title>
- Sep. 03, 1990: American Notes:Florida
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Sep. 03, 1990 Are We Ready For This?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 53
- American Notes
- FLORIDA
- A Ruckus over Rhesus
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- <body>
- <p> The monkey business started back in 1973 when Charles River
- Laboratories set up a breeding colony of rhesus monkeys on an
- island in the Florida Keys. Since then the primates have gone
- ape, swelling in numbers to more than 4,000, fouling the water
- and destroying endangered mangrove trees on state-owned land.
- Despite protests from environmentalists and nearby property
- owners, Bausch & Lomb Inc., which bought the colony in a
- package deal in 1984, refused to relocate it. Then in May the
- state department of natural resources quietly agreed to a
- settlement in which Bausch & Lomb would be allowed to phase out
- the colony over the next 20 to 30 years.
- </p>
- <p> Governor Bob Martinez, who is seeking a second term, has
- decided to stop monkeying with the issue. He rejected the
- proposed settlement and insisted that Bausch & Lomb pay for
- replacing the lost mangroves. Says Martinez: "In this case, the
- environment should be top banana."
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- </body>
- </article>
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