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Originally Posted by marcellocatalano
Rob-nepnut, you live there, how is the situation with growers? Do they know each other? Can they communicate, meet, take decisions, do conservation projects? This year I'll start trying to preserve the few thai nepenthes that are in danger, for example, and we are just two people...
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Hi Cello,
The people I know, you're discussing with them now...
It's hard to find people like you that can drop eveything and travel around few months on end to do what's needed to be done (good for you
). I for one (and many others) are keen but we have commitments and priority for taking care of family and work. Heck, I hardly even have enough time to tend to my nep collection...
I guess what I wanted to say is that everyone have different opinion regarding this matter and everyone will do whatever they can in their own way to help protecting what's left of the wild nep species/hybrids. The main point is we all are trying to "protect" what's left of it.
A case in point, do you still remember the site that we went together in Hatyai where there're amp, mirabilis, x kuchingensis and gracilis?? It's all gone now... the whole area been bulldozed over and turned into rubber plantation. You can effectively categorize this as
"local extinction" of those nep species/hybrids and I'm
glad that I managed to save some of these neps and grow them in my collection.... so am I a
poarcher or
conservationist ???
I firmly believe the future of nep is in the hand of horticulture propogated via
TC and
man made seed grown cross of species and hybrid.
Please don't shoot me yet as I
DO NOT imply that we all should just give up hope on wild nep conservation but I always believe it's better to have a backup plan.... just in case