Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
#21
|
|||
|
|||
Tree Ferns hardiness
I don't kmow the details of the regulations in New Zealand but am
prepared to accept that it is regulated (but are the regulations properly enforced?). My concerns are principally: 1. Regulation makes it legal but doesn't make it right and who says the regulations will ensure the plants are not wiped out. Large scale destruction of natural resources - regulated or not - is, historically, the prelude to their demise. For example, the fishing industry in the North Sea has been regulated for years - and it has been equally obvious to anybody who thinks about it that for years we have been heading straight towards where we are now - closure of the whole fishery because Cod are on the brink of extinction around our coasts. 2. Emotionally, I find it impossible to accept the removal of 150 year plants from the wild - as do many others. Look at the fuss there is in this country when developers - completely legally - remove old trees. If it isn't acceptable in the UK, then it isn't acceptable in New Zealand or anywhere else. -- Larry Stoter Considering the relatively minimal amount of development going on in NZ I find it incredible that Larry's pursuing this point. There's a lot more damage being done in the rain forrests of South America. I would have thought if anything was going to upset anyone, it would have been the wholesale destruction of hundreds of thousands of acres of rainforest, not the relatively small number of tree ferns being relocated from NZ to other parts of the world. I understand Larry being concerned about the environment, and I think we've all heard what he has to say, but this is a UK based gardening newsgroup, not a newsgroup for environmental campaigners. This issue involves the NZ government and can only be changed there, not within the UK. Maybe this thread could be wound up now? Dave. |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
Struggling to find homes for New Zealand Tree ferns 8ft to 10ft tall. PLEASE HELP | United Kingdom | |||
Tree ferns-- New exceptionally Good Resource | United Kingdom | |||
Tree Ferns & Daphne | Australia | |||
Tree Ferns.. and when to prepare for winter | United Kingdom | |||
Tree Ferns | United Kingdom |