Dear Mark et al,
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [OGD] Re: conservation congress - report
I just have to question this logic.
At the International Orchid Conservation Congress 2004, the congress and the Orchid Specialist Group (OSG), SSC, IUCN adopted two proposed changes to CITES one of which is that all hybrids be excluded from CITES and CITES Documentation. Am I the only one that thinks the International Orchid Conservation Congress and the OSG have been diverted from their primary focus of orchid conservation?
I could understand if they were a trade group for orchid business or were an organization that had orchid businesses as members that they would want to spend time and energy excluding hybrids from CITES and CITES Documentation. In this posting, I am not offering an opinion either way about hybrids and CITES. I question what orchid hybrids by any stretch of logic have to do with orchid conservation. I would like to have seen the congress and the OSG adopt proposals to CITES that are more in keeping with their purpose of orchid conservation.
Lately, I feel that what is often being done in the name of conservation is turning the definition of conservation on its head. I am beginning to wonder if it is my head that is screwed on straight.
Mark Sullivan
I too had a "deja vue" feeling ... we have discussed this before.
CITES is a convention to control the international trade in ENDANGERED SPECIES. This PER DEFINITION excludes ANYTHING that has not grown to maturity in the wild. Thus it PER DEFINITION excludes Hybrids, seedling plants and ANYTHING that has been made by MAN (or women ... that for the feminists on the list. )
So all those "genii" at the congress get their victory palms for doing something that there is not to do. That is how they act to maintain their well-paid poistions. When are YOU all going to understand that CITES _AS IT IS MAINTAINED FOR PLANTS" is nothing but a farce.
START ACTING AGAINST IT ! IF not, all you are going to have in your greenhouses will be some 327 generation Phalaenopsis- hybrid Cattleya-hybrid or Cymbidium hybrid , and only those CITES gangsters will be able to have species. And that is what they want to achieve. If you don't believe that ... ask Cribb, wo, in Mexico said that only Kew (meaning Cribb of course) should be allowed to import orchid species legally into Europe .... Doesn't anyone among you wonder why KEW is never charged with "wrong doing" when one of their employees describes a new species?
Regards Guido
Dr. Guido J. Braem _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids
