Is this legal or not.

[Russell7]

Thank you, pretty sure it's illegal there too. Anyway I have another question .

What would you do if you saw wild collected orchids for sale in the local flower market. Would you buy it and grow it properly at home or just not buy from the seller again.

I think the problem to why there is a demand in collecting wild orchids and selling them is because these orchids are not large scale cultivated in a nursery. Mostly the orchids you see at a store are hybrids and it's the same thing every day. If the native wild orchids are cultivated in a big nursery( I don't know if it is allowed ) the demand would decrease: preserving native wild orchids.

[JScott]

Originally Posted by Russell7

Thank you, pretty sure it's illegal there too. Anyway I have another question .

What would you do if you saw wild collected orchids for sale in the local flower market. Would you buy it and grow it properly at home or just not buy from the seller again.

I think the problem to why there is a demand in collecting wild orchids and selling them is because these orchids are not large scale cultivated in a nursery. Mostly the orchids you see at a store are hybrids and it's the same thing every day. If the native wild orchids are cultivated in a big nursery( I don't know if it is allowed ) the demand would decrease: preserving native wild orchids.

That's exactly the problem. People need to be mass producing these rare wild orchids. But you should never buy a plant you suspect was collected from the wild. That only encourages the poacher to keep poaching more plants, and eventually these plants will be extinct in the wild.

[Subrosa]

Originally Posted by JScott

That's exactly the problem. People need to be mass producing these rare wild orchids. But you should never buy a plant you suspect was collected from the wild. That only encourages the poacher to keep poaching more plants, and eventually these plants will be extinct in the wild.

"Extinct in the wild" is a misuse of the word "extinct,". Extinction is an absolute, like pregnancy. You are or you aren't extinct or pregnant, irrespective of geography. The proper word is "extirpated".

[JScott]

Originally Posted by Subrosa

"Extinct in the wild" is a misuse of the word "extinct,". Extinction is an absolute, like pregnancy. You are or you aren't extinct or pregnant, irrespective of geography. The proper word is "extirpated".

Thank you for clearing that up. I said "extinct in the wild" because that is a common turn of phrase which people use, because it's easy to understand, where not everybody may know what "extirpated" means. But now a few more people do, so thank you for that.