Gary Duke: Ethical Plant shopping; How to avoid buying poached plants  

I 👏HAVE👏 BEEN 👏DYING👏 TO 👏FIND 👏OUT 👏HOW👏 ETHICAL👏 PLANTS ARE. Thank you so much for getting this conversation going. I buy new stuff next to never because there's an ethical problem in most supply chains. Plant collecting is where my consumerism popped up. I don't want a Vice video five years from now to make me hate all my plants

A dark side of the tremendous increase in popularity of cactus, succulents and other exotic plants is the commensurate increase in poaching. Education aimed at both consumers and authorities is a big part of the needed efforts to curtail such wanton reduction of species population.

This such an excellent video! I kind of wish this was a required video for all cacti and succulent parents to watch! I’m a relatively new cacti mom and I’m so glad I saw this video. Thank you!

What a great and educational video. Thank you so much an hopefully I never purchase from a poacher

Yeah my Ariocarpus fissuratus came from a ranch near Turlingua Texas where they were clearing a road way. The other reason for not buying these are they are much harder to acclimate into cultivation than a plant that started life in cultivation. I have a couple of other plants that came from that region about 1981 I bought when I was young. Fortunately I still have them 40 years later. From Morris park in the Ozarks , great video, great points!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌸🌴💐🌲🌷🌳🌺🌿🌹

It's all about education and awareness of plant communities, great video for any type of plant enthusiast.

A most enjoyable vid , great questions and great chat from two lads who Know a thing or two,it will be worth watching again in the future, Bill.

That cinerea was absolutely nuts

Great informative video. Good resource on the French site. As someone who has dealt with CITES listed bird issues I think a gap in education on why one should care exists. You get the "just one, what does it matter". Yet when you look at the unfathomable extent and driven harm of poaching and smuggling of many listed it is shocking. Hello Mr,, Pangolin.

well done😌👏🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟This is great exposure to the public about cacti and succulent conservation🙏

What a great video and interview! So refreshing to have a highly educated interviewer who can actually communicate.

I want to be like Gary Duke when I'm that age full of knowledge with a beautiful collection

yes!!!

That’s crazy!! Great video thank you.

Thank you for this. I've been getting feverishly into growing over the past year and it's way too hard to find good straightforward explanations like this.

Great video , Love Gary soo much good information had to watch it twice 😆

_In Mexico there are the "Management Units for the Conservation of Wildlife (UMAs)" and these legal entities of the "Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources" of the Federal Government, have as a condition to allow them to handle, store, transport, reproduce and sell specials in serious danger of extinction, to a "nursery or individual" is that a percentage of plants and seeds must be returned to the wild, and even with these locks to protect the "patrimony of all" there is a lot of predation_

Sick video !! Very informative and helpful with buying plants online! Can never trust anyone these days forreal

8:17 So does a plant that isnt in super rich soil that gets put into like rich potting soil like get shocked and die?

Spinegrabberz needs to watch this video, all his trophy plants are poached af

What is the difference between the first guy to collect something and a poacher? Not being an ass just genuinely wondering why it might be okay to take a plant in some circumstances but not others?

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I did not find this video helpful. Poached plants are stunted compared with collection grown plants. Poached plants are more weathered. Some of the poached plants Gary was showing us were poached years and decades ago. What is the point of that? You want to avoid the scourge NOW. If someone is selling plants they poached out the wild in the last month, how does that look different from something grown from seed? How are the roots different? I've been cheated: someone selling on line all his pots with nice looking specimens - the prices looked right - the plant arrives and the first thing I do is change the soil mix to my own and discover the plant has no fresh roots because it has been ripped out of the ground. There was another tell-tale sign - his soil mix was loose and not settled for the plants' age, and the plant started shrivelling rapidly after I got it - a sure sign that this disturbance of the root system was recent. That is what I would have expected you to show. Gary seemed to be just showing off some great specimens he had - and I'd love to see a video of his collection - I love your videos' of people's collection - they are very inspiring.

It would be helpful if you stop interrupting the people you are interviewing. Yes you have knowledge of Cacti, but you know very little compared to people like Mr. Duke .