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illegal orchids or orchid smuggling.....
jamiemtl wrote:
ok - so after searching through orchid digest and other forums it appears that people in the Orchid Community think that anti-smuggling laws are garbage. There has been a hidden undertone as to the "political reasons" for the ban and trade or orchids. Any hint as to what these are?? Orchid Fever will have more detail on this, but wayyyy back in the 1970s when the CITES treaty was being written it was originally written for trade in endangered animals. As a last minute item someone asked "what about plants?" and forgot that many plants (including orcids) are very fast growing and easy to produce from seed. Unlike animals, who only produce few young which are very slow growing by comparision. (Like elephants, pandas or tigers) What is ridiculous - where orchids are concerned - is that orchids can be replicated by the thousands in tissue culture labs. Or seed pods produce 100,000 of seed, so an endangered plant could very easily be brought to market merely by collecting one seed pod, which may or may not damage the environment. Market forces would keep the prices low because many plants would be available to sell. Instaead, the law forbids you to collect any part of an endangered species. Rarity forces the prices sky high. Illegal trade abounds. How are you going to tell someone in Papua New Guinea not to collect that rare orchid and sell it for more money than they'd earn in a year? Additionally, orchids in the way of highway projects, or in areas soon to be flooded by dams you are forbidden to collect and save the orchids in those areas unless you have the appropriate permits. Therefore what was an attempt to save endangered species wound up killing them by the thousands of individual plants. Read Orchid Fever. K |
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