plant smuggling is a time Dishonored
tradition there weren’t many regulations
a long time ago and a lot of people have
had to had to come up to speed and
realize just how regulated plants are
now
all plants are required to have proper
paperwork coming through ports of call
into this country we receive plants that
have been seized through the customs
officials and the Fish and Wildlife
Service at international airports
seaports and international borders and a
lot of that is to protect agricultural
crops from foreign pathogens some plants
are actively collected all of it’s
driven by demand so if something is slow
growing rare recently discovered those
are the hot items so all the plant
collectors really want to have those
plants they may or may not think very
carefully about where they came from
things like orchids and cacti and
succulents are two of the main
categories that fall under this
situation we’re contacted by the Fish
and Wildlife Service they’ll usually
give us a kind of vague description and
a number of plants that they have
available the confiscated plants that we
receive have come from primarily South
America and Southeast Asia when we’ve
gotten some big cardboard boxes with
just one or two really big cacti you can
see where the root system went into a
rock crevice and where it was chopped
out with a machete and there’s actually
kind of an emotional response because I
look at that plant and say you’ve been
on earth longer than I have and someone
just hacked you out of the ground and
shipped you off to someone to to turn a
buck those are the ones that kind of get
to me and make us make me feel like
we’re really doing something worthwhile
here when we’re secure that the plants
we have are a healthy and in good care
we send them uptown for display and
actually that’s a great chance for us to
educate the public to think about the
life of a plant in the wild it has a
story it’s plugged into a greater web of
life and this is our chance to tell
people that story
you
you
tradition there weren’t many regulations
a long time ago and a lot of people have
had to had to come up to speed and
realize just how regulated plants are
now
all plants are required to have proper
paperwork coming through ports of call
into this country we receive plants that
have been seized through the customs
officials and the Fish and Wildlife
Service at international airports
seaports and international borders and a
lot of that is to protect agricultural
crops from foreign pathogens some plants
are actively collected all of it’s
driven by demand so if something is slow
growing rare recently discovered those
are the hot items so all the plant
collectors really want to have those
plants they may or may not think very
carefully about where they came from
things like orchids and cacti and
succulents are two of the main
categories that fall under this
situation we’re contacted by the Fish
and Wildlife Service they’ll usually
give us a kind of vague description and
a number of plants that they have
available the confiscated plants that we
receive have come from primarily South
America and Southeast Asia when we’ve
gotten some big cardboard boxes with
just one or two really big cacti you can
see where the root system went into a
rock crevice and where it was chopped
out with a machete and there’s actually
kind of an emotional response because I
look at that plant and say you’ve been
on earth longer than I have and someone
just hacked you out of the ground and
shipped you off to someone to to turn a
buck those are the ones that kind of get
to me and make us make me feel like
we’re really doing something worthwhile
here when we’re secure that the plants
we have are a healthy and in good care
we send them uptown for display and
actually that’s a great chance for us to
educate the public to think about the
life of a plant in the wild it has a
story it’s plugged into a greater web of
life and this is our chance to tell
people that story
you
you
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