Re: RE: Smuggling once more
Phil (cp@pwilson.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 4 Mar 1996 23:54:50 GMT
In your message dated Sunday 3, March 1996 you wrote :
> > Furthermore, to blame hobbyist and their commercial suppliers for a
> > depletion of natural habitats is far fetched if not ridiculous.
> > Plants (and animals) are endangered. But they are endangered, mainly
through
> > the (legal???) destruction of their habitats. If one studies the
> > market closely (and that is so for CP's as well as for orchids),
> > there just is no demand as high as to be able to endanger a
> > population, let alone the species.
>
> I really don't agree with this... harvesting of passenger pigeons,
> great auks, and dodos eventually led to thier extinction. I don't
> think that habitat destruction was the main cause in these instances.
At present estimates, something like 3% of the original Sarracenia sites
remain (source: Don Schnell. CPN. Vol23, No 1). The loss of these
sites cannot be blamed solely on the collector. I can name dozens of
sites that have gone under the bulldozer.
--
Phil Wilson
(cp@pwilson.demon.co.uk)