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Re: Amazon



Aquatic Plants Digest wrote:

>
> << Go there, collect all the fish and plants you like (you can't carry enough
> fish to have ANY effect on
>  the ecosystem), spend allot of dollars while you're there, come back and
> tell us all what a great
>  trip you had! >>
>
> With suggestions like yours, we may not have anything left in the future.
> I disaggree with you, if you take an orchid from the forest of which there
> may only be a few specimens left, you have reduced the potential of that
> plant species surviving when there may only be  5-6 plants left in an area.
> Knowing the greed of many people they would probably take all 6.

UMMM! Nobody was talking about collecting orchids!  Doi!

> This is the same for fish species, some species are endemmic to certain areas
> if you collect a large % of the population that maybe endemic to one pond or
> one area of a river, this is the case with many killies, you may be removing
> enough to hamper the reproduction of this species in the future.

I don't know of any collecting trips that go onto the pantanal where the isolated
pools you speak of are typically located.  Were talking about flooded forest areas.

> The main issue that was raised on this message when posted was not the

> collecting, you can collect whatever you like.
> The issue was regarding getting them back into Canada or the US. Expeditions
> from Holland with the appropriate paperwork for collecting  in Brazil, were
> detained, fined and their goods expropriated. Countries like Brazil are
> starting to frown on people taking their wildlife. Costa Rica & Panama are
> also getting on the band wagon, without the proper permissions and paperwork
> you could be exposing yourself to detainment, expropriation and in some cases
> jail time.
> Regards,
> John

Again, nobody was talking about poaching.  If the guy is on a guided trip, the
paperwork is typically taken care of or the lack of it (therefore lack of collecting)
is well know prior to departure.  Again...  ...doi!
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Later,
Paul E. Turley

"Never before in the history of man have so many known so little about so much."
Carl Sagan