$25.00 fine... I have confidence that must be a wildly effective deterrent.
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Family caught poaching in Green Swamp
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, Jan 28 2012 02:49 PM
Dionaea Dionaea muscipula Green Swamp Brunswick North Carolina poaching
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Posted 28 January 2012 - 02:49 PM
Endangered Venus Flytrap Poached for Profit
$25.00 fine... I have confidence that must be a wildly effective deterrent.
$25.00 fine... I have confidence that must be a wildly effective deterrent.
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Posted 28 January 2012 - 06:41 PM
Wow! A whole $25! I've seen some of the so-called 'cultivars' go for much more than that!
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Posted 28 January 2012 - 08:41 PM
add a couple of zeros and that might make a difference
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Posted 29 January 2012 - 12:47 PM
Several zeros extra and a short jail term would be a real deterrent!
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Posted 29 January 2012 - 05:20 PM
$25 for all the plants, or $25 for each plant?
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Posted 29 January 2012 - 05:46 PM
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All three were charged with citations for uprooting an endangered species without permission and asked to appear in court in March.
The citations carry a $25 penalty, but locals said the keeping the endangered plant means much more to them.
The citations carry a $25 penalty, but locals said the keeping the endangered plant means much more to them.
To me that reads as $25.00 per person... not per plant.
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Posted 29 January 2012 - 08:08 PM
Aidan, on 29 January 2012 - 05:46 PM, said:
To me that reads as $25.00 per person... not per plant.
How does they could think this could be a deterrent?! $25 is a very cheap price for a single wild plant, and assuming that they picked up quite a lot of them, it's surely a "gift" for the "poachers"...
I would agree with Stephen, adding 2 or maybe 3 zero after that amount would be very fine!!
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Posted 30 January 2012 - 09:31 PM
goddamn ridiculous, 25 bucks a head, wtf?! 
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Posted 01 February 2012 - 09:57 PM
Wow,
It's lenient fines and rules such as this, that makes cp conservation work quite difficult here in the US. Plus, most of the Rangers here are more interested in drinking cans of Budweiser and obsessing about hunting season...than they are about the protection of endangered plants of any type. Now animal poaching is a different topic....
Brian
It's lenient fines and rules such as this, that makes cp conservation work quite difficult here in the US. Plus, most of the Rangers here are more interested in drinking cans of Budweiser and obsessing about hunting season...than they are about the protection of endangered plants of any type. Now animal poaching is a different topic....
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Posted 02 February 2012 - 12:09 AM
It gets worse... Despite the endangered status of the plant it is apparently still possible to obtain permits to collect them and one supplier local to Green Swamp has in the past happily admitted to stocking wild-collected plants.
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Posted 04 February 2012 - 07:27 AM
Seriously, in Borneo, if you try smuggle out Nepenths, i'm sure you can get fined up to $50,000!
Now, if they fined that, and added a jail term, poachers would be sorted out instantly! As for that supplier... bring back the death sentence!
Now, if they fined that, and added a jail term, poachers would be sorted out instantly! As for that supplier... bring back the death sentence!
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