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Peter O'Byrne who said:
>If the Peruvian authorities (or anyone else) wanted to demonstrate
the
>illegality of an individual plant, they could do so, and will be in a >position to do so for generations to come. Peter you are absolutely right!
>The real question is, will they want to ?
INRENA sat on their collective asses
for one full year, from the day Kovach
brought his smuggled Pk plant to USA. During that
year the Pk habitats were
stripped bare, and
thousands of illegally collected Pk's left the
country right
under their noses.
Right after this year had past, INRENA then
assigned the protection of Pk to
Manuel Arias. For my Peruvian friends, who
know Manuel Arias better than any
of you who praise
his virtues, as well as for me, this was the irony of all ironies!
INRENA has yet to acknowledge, publicly, that
Manuel Arias Silva was convicted
and sentenced in the USA for smuggling
Phragmipediums out of Peru.
The Peruvian government, by providing Manuel Arias
Silva with a substitute passport
for the one the USDOJ had confiscated, played the
biggest part in Manuel's escape
from the USA.
My answer to your question is,
"NO!!"
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