A Guide to Building Ethical Orchid Collections and Societies
Download your free copy of A Guide to Building Ethical Orchid Collections and Societies. This digital book, which encourages conservation among orchid societies and individual orchid collectors, has been published in English, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, and Indonesian. It addresses one of the greatest crises in the orchid world, which is the harvest of wild plants. That’s already caused many extinctions, and can decimate rare species. This book offers guidelines for orchid societies to educate their members, discourage harmful practices, and promote conservation. Good practices include not buying or selling wild orchids, and only purchasing from legal, sustainable plant sources.
Learn more about how to be a responsible orchid collector in these previous posts:
- Is That Rare Plant Illegal?
- Wild Orchid Collectors: A Key Driver of Decline
- Poaching Orchids
- Good Practices and Bad Habits of Nature Photography
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