Nepenthes Highland Nurseries @ Borneo Exotics Part 4

In the evening of December 25 we return from our successful filming at the highland nurseries in Nuwara Eliya to our hotel at the beach of Mount Lavinia. However, there remains not much time to relax as in the morning of December 26 the terrible tsunami hits the shore. Only the lucky circumstance that our hotel has been build on an approximately 3 m high rock saves us from serious trouble. Fortunately the nurseries of Borneo Exotics have not been damaged but Rob and Diana experience another strange and hard to describe desaster. At their highland property numerous wonderful and precious Nepenthes have to be devastated ... for license reasons ... simply unbelievable.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Nepenthes
• carnivorous plants
• Karnivoren
• Borneo Exotics
• Robert Cantley
• Sri Lanka
• Tsunami 2004

[Sonnentau1]

?Und jetzt bitte noch mal auf Deutsch.?

 ?Warum machen die das?

[shartmeyer]

@Sonnentau1Die im Labor in-vitro produzierten Pflanzen wurden vom Hersteller unter Lizenzrecht an BE vor vielen Jahren als kleine Pflänzchen verkauft. Inzwischen ist die Lizenz abgelaufen und wohl aus Konkurrenzgründen, wurde BE unter Strafandrohung vom Lizenzhalter aufgefordert, die Restbestände der inzwischen ausgewachsenen Pflanzen zu vernichten. Bei geschützten Pflanzen sicher eine Schande, juristisch aber wohl korrekt. Der Artenschutz ist ausgehebelt durch das "Genpatent".

[rowdyfish]

OH MY GOD!!!!! why in hell would you burn Neps?!?!?!!? This isn't very different from burning people!!! Man... This is just plain sickening. Maddcatone, you are exactly right! Why should just one person be entitled to a cultivar??? Sickening.

[shartmeyer]

This topic is actually strange. Imagine that meanwhile there is a kind of "gene-police" active in the USA to scrutinise if farmers grow corn containing MONSANTO "round-up resistant" genes. If they find this the farmer has to pay license for it or to terminate his harvest. A desaster and the same strange story of gene-license, but even worse with human nutrition.

[happybuddyperson]

This is torture.

[happybuddyperson]

You didn't even keep ONE!?!?!?!??!

[Nepo35]

They are the biggest nepenthes nursery now. I wonder who has the last laugh

[STFUbelgium]

Too bad... But it had to. ;(

[albertopedras]

WTF is ur problem re plant them or some thing don't kill them

[tehloserisyou]

i would like to see the downfall of the company belonging to those sick bastards who insructed you to burn members of a genus that is ENDANEGERED. god if i ever meet those people i would set them on fire! Keep up the good work guys you are a blessing to growers everywhere

[tehloserisyou]

Oh gawd i think i'm going to faint why would the law demand such a horrible thing to occur this makes me tear up a little..... T.T

[BloodyAbyss1216]

this almost made me cry:(