Post by jackblack on Sept 3, 2011 0:13:07 GMT -8
Hows this one .
I sold some beetles to a big insect dealer , he said I want all your stock / monopoly on the specimens.OK fine sold them at a reasonable price to him.
Some months later he said can`t sell these beetles so if you know anyone who wants to buy them ask them to contact me , I said fine I will help you , I help all my friends .
Anyway in the meantime another guy illegally exports the same rare species and of course the price plumits.
I asked the big dealer the other day help me with my research and I will give you $1000 worth of specimens free in exchange of 4 beetles you have .To further research.
He says OK under the condition you buy half of these beetles back I bought off you and you pay me for the 4 beetles you want!
These dealers buy illegally exported material then a market for a legally exported species is destroyed and then I get more or less blackmailed to buy back my own specimens .Not fair I say.
I recently posted a thread about the illegal trade and here is a typical example of how , the dealers /buyers have cut their own throat .
I don`t like the blackmail threat of having to buy my own specimens back to further research by a dealer advertising on insectnet banners.
But it seems some of these dealers , like big buisiness around the world that threaten habitats through cutting timber for guitars I just read , don`t give a damn , I have struck this attitude again and again , some people don`t give a sh t about anything except about the wallet on their hip pocket .
So should we support over exploitation , I grew up as a kid in Papua New Guinea and I saw exploitation big scale back in the 70`s , I learned from this , more than I realise every day at least my buisiness is legal and every insect I sell helps support my environment 80 acres of lowland rainforest in Nth Qld , I have morals and ethics and I am more determined every day with what I do , so forum readers support my farm , my research and my ethics , not some big dealers that pretend to support research and rainforest conservation and who hide behind a website which says , well although these laws don`t affect me in my country and I`m not legally bound just because australia has laws which are basically useless over here .So if I buy illegally imported material thats fine for me.
So readers is that OK ?
I`m on a really touchy subject here , but I`m gettin a bit annoyed , about the way these guys portray themselves , oh yeah it happenns but not in my backyard , what a load of crap .
I`d really like to name a few of these guys , but it can get pretty heavy I feel .
But just look at a site on insectnet that advertises protected species of Australian insects and then they say , oh the specimens were collected over a hundred years ago , yeah right
Anyway Iv`e had a gut full of the way people falsely portray themselves and won`t even help with legitimate research . Its a very sad state of affiars I must say.
I sold some beetles to a big insect dealer , he said I want all your stock / monopoly on the specimens.OK fine sold them at a reasonable price to him.
Some months later he said can`t sell these beetles so if you know anyone who wants to buy them ask them to contact me , I said fine I will help you , I help all my friends .
Anyway in the meantime another guy illegally exports the same rare species and of course the price plumits.
I asked the big dealer the other day help me with my research and I will give you $1000 worth of specimens free in exchange of 4 beetles you have .To further research.
He says OK under the condition you buy half of these beetles back I bought off you and you pay me for the 4 beetles you want!
These dealers buy illegally exported material then a market for a legally exported species is destroyed and then I get more or less blackmailed to buy back my own specimens .Not fair I say.
I recently posted a thread about the illegal trade and here is a typical example of how , the dealers /buyers have cut their own throat .
I don`t like the blackmail threat of having to buy my own specimens back to further research by a dealer advertising on insectnet banners.
But it seems some of these dealers , like big buisiness around the world that threaten habitats through cutting timber for guitars I just read , don`t give a damn , I have struck this attitude again and again , some people don`t give a sh t about anything except about the wallet on their hip pocket .
So should we support over exploitation , I grew up as a kid in Papua New Guinea and I saw exploitation big scale back in the 70`s , I learned from this , more than I realise every day at least my buisiness is legal and every insect I sell helps support my environment 80 acres of lowland rainforest in Nth Qld , I have morals and ethics and I am more determined every day with what I do , so forum readers support my farm , my research and my ethics , not some big dealers that pretend to support research and rainforest conservation and who hide behind a website which says , well although these laws don`t affect me in my country and I`m not legally bound just because australia has laws which are basically useless over here .So if I buy illegally imported material thats fine for me.
So readers is that OK ?
I`m on a really touchy subject here , but I`m gettin a bit annoyed , about the way these guys portray themselves , oh yeah it happenns but not in my backyard , what a load of crap .
I`d really like to name a few of these guys , but it can get pretty heavy I feel .
But just look at a site on insectnet that advertises protected species of Australian insects and then they say , oh the specimens were collected over a hundred years ago , yeah right
Anyway Iv`e had a gut full of the way people falsely portray themselves and won`t even help with legitimate research . Its a very sad state of affiars I must say.
