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illegal orchids or orchid smuggling.....
Al
I have no argument with anything you said. CITES is an issue primarily for importers and exporters. But I recall cases where vendors couldn't get their plants across the border when they visited an orchid society here as a guest speaker. That was a major disappointment because they had some very interesting plants. And I can see it as a potential problem for collectors in one country wanting to take plants to shows in another country. I'd expect that if I, as a Canadian collector and not a vendor, wanted to attend an orchid show in New York, CITES could be an issue for me if the plants I wanted to show, or have judged, we subect to CITES restrictions. At the last orchid society meeting I attended, several breeders, in discussing the impact of CITES on their business, noted both that the Canadian officials seemed to want documentary proof that vendors needed to be able to prove that the parent plants of a given cross are legal (if they're species protected by CITES), and that they were not provided with documentation proving the legality of the seedlings they'd bought from which they wanted to select breeding stock. They were worried that they'd not be able to prove that the breeding stock they'd bought from a vendor that imported the plants into Canada originally was legal. For me it isn't an issue since I have no plans on taking any of my plants across any border any time soon. When I referred to documentation, I was thinking only of collectors who may need to take some of their plants across a border for whatever reason, and commercial operations that may be involved directly or indirectly in international trade. Cheers, Ted -- R.E. (Ted) Byers, Ph.D., Ed.D. R & D Decision Support Solutions http://www.randddecisionsupportsolutions.com/ Healthy Living Through Informed Decision Making |
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