Usually, Animals have two way to make it sure that they can keep their
gene out of the danger of extinct. one way is to product as more as
possible baby animals (Usually, just eggs), such as mollusca, if one of
them survived, then , the species survived. the other way is to feed and
protect they babies carefully, such as birds, tigers.

For the first way, species collecting will not endanger the species, the
only way to endanger the species is to destroy the enviroment in which the
animals live.

but the law makers don't think so.

This summer, i went to Yellow Sea in Shandong Province, China, to collect
some intertidal species, but i found most of coast was forbidden for
collectors, but opened for house builders.......

I went to Hainan provice for land snails, i found the forest is forbidden
for collectors, but open for log makers....

It is more easy to make a law to forbid collectors than make a law for
other people




He Jing
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