>Out of all the shipments globally in a year, just how high do you suppose >the incidents of intentional vs, unintentional law breaking do you suppose >there might be?
>Regards/Roger, in Bangkok Roger no one knows the exact figure, but I imagine the ratio is much higher than one. Let's just consider one of many factors that go into the equation. In the case of Phragmipedium kovachii there are at this moment FIFTEEN legal mature plants plus their divisions in two Peruvian nurseries, actively propagating all the legal seedlings in the world. With an estimated THREE THOUSAND illegal Phragmipedium kovachii plants smuggled out of Peru to countries all over the world, plants for which huge sums of money were paid, many of which, no doubt, reached propagators and reached them one year before the two Peruvian nurseries got their legal plants, I venture to guess that the illegal seedlings easily outnumber the legal ones by a factor of twenty to one hundred. How this translates into a ratio you are looking for, I leave up to you. peter _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
