Well said Tim, from another untitled white male. Karl On Feb 10, 2015 9:37 PM, "Tim Eck" <teck11@embarqmail.com> wrote: > There is no purpose to most CITES restrictions. They are a bureaucracy set > in place that has much momentum and little insight. In my opinion, they do > more harm than good and are likely to cause more extinctions than they > prevent. In my work with the American chestnut, the import restrictions > prevent us from importing all material from blight resistant species > because > it might harbor the chestnut blight. That is what we are trying to correct > and they are over a hundred years too late for that! > A similar irony is the mindless bureaucracy of the US congress. They > believed they could get more votes if they were "HARD ON CRIME" so they put > the pot smokers in jail and ruined their lives and careers. So are we > going > to give those poor people their lives back now that we are legalizing pot? > If entitled white males like me feel helpless when confronted by > bureaucratic indifference, I can't imagine how the underprivileged must > feel. > Sorry, I got carried away there. > > -----Original Message----- > From: pbs [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Lee Poulsen > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 10:50 PM > To: Pacific Bulb Society > Subject: Re: [pbs] new member . introduction > > On Feb 10, 2015, at 10:48 AM, Mario Klesczewski <mario_kle@yahoo.fr> > wrote: > > > sending seeds of interesting (non protected) species too > > I have a question regarding Mario's comment here. I would like to know the > purpose for not allowing the sending or trading of seeds of protected > (CITES, I presume) species, especially those that are produced by plants > grown in personal gardens or collections? I can sort of, kind of, > understand > possible reasons for disallowing the collecting or distribution of seeds > collected from wild, protected species (although I would point to the > example of South Africa's Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden of growing and > providing seedlings of Clivia mirabilis to anyone who ordered them > everywhere in the world shortly after this new and rare species was > discovered as a brilliant way to immediately diminish the problem of > poachers decimating the wild-growing populations of rare plants). But seeds > collected from your own personal non-wild plants?! Who came up with that > idea? And why, oh, why? > > --Lee Poulsen > Pasadena, California, USA - USDA Zone 10a Latitude 34°N, Altitude 1150 > ft/350 m > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/