Quote: >You can provide no long-term >guarantees of any kind ... so stop being presumptuous. Only the >natural environment can provide a long-term solution; you cannot.
A painful truth to anyone who has had a glasshouse cook up. Unhappily, the alternative - of buying land and trying to protect it - is also extraordinarily difficult to pull off, particularly in nations where the tradition of 'parks' - that is, uncultivated land which is nevertheless owned by someone and - has not been established. Uncultivated land is, across most of the developing world, common land, culturally-defined as being where people can graze cattle and log for construction, firewood and sale. Land bought by individuals and associations with the aim of protecting it from development needs a permanent staff to keep people and their animals out, and this is often seen as illegitimate and wasteful. Indeed, one may find the 'park staff' running their own goats through the forest, and a flourishing village of dependents established where salaries draw them to live. ______________________________ Oliver Sparrow +44 (0)20 7736 9716 www.chforum.org _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
