This debate is surrealistic - the Philippine government complaining about "collection" and "export" permits while a scientist did some good work identifying a species of centipede. Who cares if he had a permit? It's not like one or a few samples of such centipedes being collected will be detrimental. They didn't even know that the species existed, until this guy identified them as such! https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/02/illicit-centipede-raises-thorny-question-should-journals-have-refused-publish-paper