Botanic Gardens and Seed Exchanges
MARK MAZER AND FREDRIKA MAZER (Thu, 08 Sep 2011 07:39:49 PDT)

While we still receive *Index Seminum* from other botanic gardens their
numbers have been drastically reduced over the last ten years. In some
cases because of budget cuts and staffing shortages but in many cases due

to

concerns related to the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) and
invasive plants.

Folly of course...the treaty has never (20 years or so) been ratified in
the US and the legal enforcement mechanisms are ...what...nonexistant.

Mark Mazer
Hertford, North Carolina US