Thanks Michael [O'Connor]
for your comment on how the site for the 2011 WOC was chosen.
Hopefully, we will eventually learn from someone who actually participated in the decision what actually went on at the meeting of the Site Selection Committee in Dijon.
Comments are interesting and may be based on facts but there is nothing like a primary source to set the record straight.
As a reminder, the 10th WOC was held in Durban, South Africa, in 1981, with 1126 participants from 32 countries. Of course, that did not disqualify South Africa from possibly hosting another WOC, 30 years later.
If commercial interests would have prevailed, I presume that Taiwan would have had a chance.
************* in the news :
In Dijon, for lack of proper CITES documentation, 1 839 orchid plants were confiscated during the WOC.
Additionally, 85 pots of ladyslippers (no genus mentioned in the article) were also seized, 3 plants of the same "genus", another unspecified species in a pot, and 11 bulbs.
At the WOC in Dijon some 150 000 orchid plants were displayed, about 10 000 species and hybrids.
[my translation]
source [in French] :
http://filinfo.france3.fr/popup_afp.php?nameRegion=bfc&id=%20050321113431.wzg2n24o
************* Regards,
Viateur
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