tumble dot hell is wild and i am So Weary so here’s a reminder that poaching any organism is bad and u should not do it but poaching an endangered organism is even worse and you should really, especially not do that please and also posting about an endangered organism is not an immediate endorsement for poaching them and oh my god lads 🅱️lease im begging u just use ur heads….you are intelligent and capable people…..use common sense……
And there’s such a thing as????? Nursery produced plants???? Like how is that option forgotten on such people??? Y’know how many endangered species (as well as some officially declared extinct-in-the-wild) are COMMON IN THE NURSERY PRODUCED TRADE???
I can’t list them all but the ones off the top of my head are various carnivorous plants, orchids, cacti (I’m even thinking of some Canary Island plant species but icr the names), wollemi pine. But the grandest example I can think of Ginkgo. Yes you read that right; ginkgo, the common tree you see everywhere in cityscapes is considered endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species, because it is so scarce in its wild habitat.
So how can this be??? With the number of trees you get from the nursery surely it should be extinct cause we’ve poached them all right?? WRONG!!!!! Because nurseries have done their own production of the tree; seed-grown, graftings, buddings, no longer ever taken from the wild (poaching still exists for ginkgos if you can believe it but is greatly overshadowed by the nursery trade’s work of mass producing ginkgo trees on a large scale, it’s just… more productive long-term to be growing them yourself over taking ones from the wild).
You don’t have to poach plants to appreciate them, endangered or otherwise. Hell you don’t even have to grow them (cause hell not all plants CAN be grown easily), you can still appreciate them. You don’t appreciate the beauty of a Siberian tiger in the wild and take it as an endorsement to hunt them all down or (god forbid) keep them as pets right? Just because its a plant doesn’t mean its not a similar thing.
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