| Anton & Tom,
I pretty much agree with what you said. My concern is how to better monitor illegal cultivation of them in poorer countries where border travel
is not as stringent. I know that thousands of illegally cultivated wild orchids from Laos and Cambodia are brought into Thailand across mountain passes
that are not guarded. If people, especially those that have no money and
are barely able to make a living for themselves and their familes, can find
ways to collect orchids from the wild and sell them illegally, they will do so
at any cost. |