Botanic Gardens and Seed Exchanges

MARK MAZER AND FREDRIKA MAZER markmazerandfm13@earthlink.net
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




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