BCSS - Forum

I just saw this online talk advertised on the Twitter of the IUCN Cactus and Succulent Plants Specialist Group @CssgSsc :

Join Dr. Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies on 'Is my cactus illegal? Demystifying the world of illegal trade in cacti and succulents'.⁣⁣
⁣⁣
Thursday, March 25, 2021, at 6 pm CDT

Tickets with donation.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/is-my-cact ... 4126441065

The link on Twitter goes to another talk on this website, so I assume it has not gone up there yet:
https://www.bgci.org/news-events/

I thought some might be interested. A bit too late at night for me, 11-12 GMT.

The group have recently made a website:
https://iucn-cssg.org/en/about_cssg/

I can't find any mention of FloraGuard on this forum, so I thought I would mention it.

It isn't an air freshener. It is a collaboration between Kew, the UK Border Force and Interpol and several other groups I would have to look up to know who they were.

FloraGuard combines innovative and cross-disciplinary ways of analysing online marketplaces for the illegal trade in endangered plants and analyses of existing policing practices to assist law enforcement in the detection and investigation of illegal trades of endangered plants. It focuses on the UK, which serves as a major transit and destination market for the European region.

http://floraguard.org/

Perhaps they could provide an expert to give a talk for the BCSS?

Now I am going to read their journal article "From horticulture to psychonautics: an analysis of online communities discussing and trading plants with psychotropic properties".

https://link.springer.com/article/10.10 ... 20-09389-5

Perhaps after watching The Yin Yang Master.

It sounds like one of those groups which will do everything they can to stop trade in mass produced plants and absolutely nothing about habitat destruction a bit like CITIES really.

Pattock wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 9:38 pm [...]

Now I am going to read their journal article "From horticulture to psychonautics: an analysis of online communities discussing and trading plants with psychotropic properties".

https://link.springer.com/article/10.10 ... 20-09389-5

Perhaps after watching The Yin Yang Master.

Now you got my attention!

“It isn't an air freshener.” LOL

I read this as:

FloraGuard checks eBay for dodgy plants and if they spot one they tell the police who ignore them. They only check the UK, which used to trade with Europe.

http://floraguardairfresheners.org/

Jared Margulies was one of the interviewees on this short video documentary on youtube about succulent-poaching. 9 minutes of well-made gloom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KirP2ef1lJ0