Example.

The well known green tree snail, Papuina pulcherrima, is protected from American collectors but deforestation will more surely eliminate this and other animals from the planet than any collector's efforts.

John Timmerman
Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

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> >It is frustrating and maddening to see species pushed to the brink
> >by wasteful resource extraction or overharvesting or pollution.
>
> What is needed is armies of collectors going into forests slated for
> logging (especially in Indonesia, which has a frightening and insane
> amount of forest cleared every day), and collecting EVERY specimen
> they can find, both for scientific study and collectors. If they are
> going to be destroyed anyway, at least something could be saved.
> Either that, or find some way to eradicate those responsible for the
> logging.
> --
> Andrew Grebneff
> Dunedin
> New Zealand
> Fossil preparator
> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyot a van nut
> ‚ Opinions stated are mine, not those of Otago University
> "There is water at the bottom of the ocean" - Talking Heads
>
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