Diane wrote Seed of endangered plants should not be offered on seed exchanges, and many plants are in no danger of being over-collected, so publishing their locale will not be a problem. > Hi, Some very interesting comments and I believe in the conservation through cultivation and there are very good examples of Australian native plants that have been saved this way. If seeds of endangered plants should not be offered on seed exchanges what should be done with them and what of the seed of endangered plants that are in the hands of collectors? There is little doubt in my mind that I or someone else in this group will have plants that will one day have significant value to the re-introduction of their species into the wild and to the genetic diversity that is in the wild or in other collections. We as a group can help save plants from decline and possibly extiction by saving them from destruction in the name of progress. I myself have jumped out of my car in front of excavators to save native crinums from destruction even though they might be common in my area. They now have a safe home as long as I live here and I have given them the chance to continue there line because I chose to collect them. If it is one day proven that they are endangered I can only be even more thankful that I saved them. Kind Regards and Best Wishes Ron Redding Hervey Bay Australia >From: Diane Whitehead <voltaire@islandnet.com> >Reply-To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> >To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> >Subject: Re: [pbs] Seed and Bulb Excanges, some Comments >Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:18:55 -0700 > >I also am interested in provenance, and always try to keep track of >seed donors and the places wild seeds came from. > >Some seed exchanges that used to publish detailed information >(altitude, soil, name of mountain, etc) have stopped doing so. I >think this is because of the danger of endangered plants' locations >becoming known. I disagree with the policy. Seed of endangered >plants should not be offered on seed exchanges, and many plants are >in no danger of being over-collected, so publishing their locale will >not be a problem. > >-- >Diane Whitehead Victoria, British Columbia, Canada >maritime zone 8 >cool mediterranean climate (dry summer, rainy winter - 68 cm annually) >sandy soil _________________________________________________________________ realestate.com.au: the biggest address in property http://ninemsn.realestate.com.au/