This thread is interesting. This does not directly concern poaching but international trade of threatened species. I find the laws regarding saving those threatened species from habitat destruction instead of letting them being bulldozed over rather unreasonable. Apparently, some laws (such as CITES laws) designed to protect threatened species is not fool-proof because it was originally intended to protect animals, and not plants. Obviously there is a big difference between the reproductive ability of rare mammals (rhinos, orang utans etc) which bear only a few live young a year and plants, which can produce thousands of seeds from a mature plant. Hence, collecting (I mean saving) 1 plant from the wild before it is flattened by a bulldozer and propagating the seeds contributes significantly to the survival of that species.. Just my 2 sen..
