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illegal orchids or orchid smuggling.....
I will be surprised enough to faint if the US gov't provides any such
funding. But if they actually did, the AOS would not be the folks to manage it. I don't get down there often, only when I have something I think might be worthy of submitting to the judges when they meet once a month (the two rarely coincide). But in the last few trips, I've seen Dendrobiums planted in the ground, in full sun, outside the building (dying, of course), a gift shop full of cool-growing Miltoniopsis, which don't have a prayer in the hands of a south Florida hobbyist, labelled only "Miltonia Hybrid," and numerous other grossly inappropriate practices. So I certainly wouldn't want to see the AOS in charge of any such program. The sad facts are that, even assuming the treaty could be modified to permit it, it's going to cost $$$ to rescue the plants currently being destroyed, and use some of them to produce and grow artificially-propagated plants to ease the demand on wild collection. It's also going to require qualified personnel. Neither donations nor tax $$ allocations have been able to meet those conditions for a long time now, but it seems that no one is willing to let the process pay for itself by granting permits to anyone who might be able to do it at even a small profit. So, they continue to be destroyed. Kenni "Jack" wrote in message oups.com... Just wondering what is CITES, if it cost so freeking much, why doesn't customs fund a genome project for orchids, or for that matter provide funding to AOS for a project, then they could do a relativly cheep test and find out, I mean the Fish and Game lab in Oregon has been doing the same thing for 20 years Jack but don't mind me, I still have problems keeping my orchids alive |
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