[leps-talk] Fwd: value

[Jean Michel Maes]

I have seen some months ago that a Japanese man buy a Lucanidae for 90,000
US $ just because it was 1 cm more than the biggest known one....

The value of something is only how much someone is able to give for.

The same 90,000 $ lucanid will cost 5 US $ if someone find (or rear with
vitamins) a 2 mm bigger...

Saludos,

Jean-Michel.

Dr. Jean-Michel MAES
MUSEO ENTOMOLOGICO
AP 527 (Do not use DHL or similar !)
LEON
NICARAGUA
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jmmaes at ibw.com.ni

www.insectariumvirtual.com/termitero/nicaragua/MEL%20HOME%20PAGE.htm (Home
page)
www.museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/database2/honduintro.htm
(Scarabaeidae)
www.windsofkansas.com/nicaragua.html (Odonata)
www.geocities.com/krislinde/pdf/JMMAES.pdf (bibliografia)

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From: Chris J. Durden <drdn at mail.utexas.edu>
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Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 12:01 AM
Subject: [leps-talk] Fwd: value


> Check the price of that Macaw in your local pet store. How many Birdwings
> could you buy for that amount?
> This argument is ridiculous.
> ...........Chris Durden
>
> >________________________
> >Message: 4
> >Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 07:52:07 -0700
> >From: Paul Cherubini <monarch at saber.net>
> >Subject: Re: Commercial value of butterflies
> >Michael Gochfeld wrote:
> > > It's not an underground at all. There is a whole list serve
> > > devoted to the sale and purchase of specimens (both live and dead).
> > > It's the commercial aspect of butterfly specimens that worries
> > > conservationists (birders and butterfliers don't buy and trade
specimens).
> > > Not many species command hundreds of dollars,
> >Mike, an article in Outside Magazine hints at an underground
> >industry where big dollars are paid for perfect rare / endangered
> >butterflies and moths:
> >http://www.outsidemag.com/magazine/0196/9601is.html
> >"Although their case is the most prominent, Kral, Skalski, and
> >Grinnell are not the only collectors to have run afoul of the Fish &
> >Wildlife Service. Last July a commercial dealer named Charles
> >Kondor was sentenced to five months in prison in Wisconsin.
> >The indictment that same month of a collector in Texas, John
> >William Kemner, who specialized in Mexican butterflies, is
> >rumored to implicate some of the most important museums in
> >the country, from the Smithsonian on down. Butterfly poaching
> >and smuggling cases have been investigated independently in
> >Britain, India, and China, where a pair of alpine silks was
> >reportedly sold on the Japanese market for $37,000."
> >I just wanted to know whether or not the motivation for
> >the collecting and breeding of rare species in the Skalski-Kral-Grinnel
> >case was to make money via underground trading or
> >the motivation was simply to accumulate the worlds finest
> >collection of rare butterflies (with the recently passed Fish &
> >Wildlife endangered species laws getting in the way from time to time)
> >Paul Cherubini
>
>
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