please think, before you bring your 'Internet-Stuff' about 'In Vitro stuff'.
All the people, who I know, do progagate the In Vitro plants by their own
and not with any supply of Universities and I don't want to tell you, how
expensive it is. In the time, when you are going maybe with your
girlfriend to the cinema, they sit at their hood and propagate the
plant-material and I think, it is quite legitime (maybe not about
internet) to sell it, to get back the uncost.
They do it because of private interest, but please tell me a better way,
to save endangered species in the wild! Plant-hunting will not be any
more interesting, if you can get all the stuff for some $ out of In Vitro
cultures. Who is anymore interested to hunt N. rajah, if you can get it
complete with CITES to buy everywhere.
So, now tell me please, what you are doing, to save the species in the
wild! You can e.g. buy the areas, where rare species are growing, to
protect it from logging or try to organize it, but do it.
Have a e.g a look to Borneo! Do you know how long the species will
survive in the wild? They are killed by logging and fire, not by
plant-hunters and I would be happy, if I would have got seed from species
like N. neglecta or N. campanulata from them to keep the genome alive, at
least in the tube and in a lot of greenhouses. Now they are extinct and
we can't bring them back again!
Sorry for this hard lines, but think about that.
Joe N.