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In article , "Colin Davidson" writes: | | True enough. And I entirely agree, it's better to think of plants as part of | populations than as individuals, but I've seen whole local populations of | plants wiped out by plant hunting gardeners. I've seen a small, town based | nature reserve stripped of cowslips. I've seen whole populations of | strawberries ripped out of woodlands. Is it not worth preventing that? And I have seen whole areas denuded of those by habitat destruction, with the probable loss of the local variants. Is it not worth trying to prevent that? | That perhaps the right to move wild plants ought to be restricted for the | landowners (depending on what the plants are and what changes are planned) | is a different argument to whether anyone at all should be able to remove | plants. You are being forgetful. The excuse for the Act was conservation grounds. If that had been a genuine reason, the law would have been changed to address the main abuses and not to do other things as well. | I'd also argue that the public (whoever they are) have also got a right to | enjoy a rich, diverse flora. That right can be in opposition to the right to | take plants from the wild; so there's no absolute right and wrong here that | can be applied. Then you should be supporting me in regarding that Act as anathema! Its faults include precisely those of applying SINGLE-SIDED absolute rules. | Furthermore, the Act is written in such a way that it will be almost | impossible to prosecute people who take plants without permission and | for gain. I can see lots of loopholes, and there was and is no attempt | to assist enforceability. | | I haven't read that bit of the act, so I'll have to take your word for that. Much of the point is that there ISN'T such a bit .... | I dunno, maybe I just have less faith in the typical gardener to make a | responsible decision than you do. Perhaps I have less faith that making wild plants comparable to game in legal status is going to help landowners and others make responsible decisions than you do. | These are, of course, important issues. I simply don't accept that allowing | people to take wild plants is going to solve them. I didn't say that it would. I said that the Act as it was passed is goint to make them worse. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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