Wollemi Pines

["Peter Ewin" <>]

As Colin pointed out, the sale is for the conservation of the Wollemi Pine. 
The Royal Botanic Gardens and NSW NPWS (now both part of DEC) get a 
percentage of the sale (can't remember how much) that goes back into the 
budget for conservation of this and other species.
Not certain how something that was only described in 1995 was presumed 
extinct (as listed in the web site). Technically it was an undescribed 
species (because it had never been seen). The fossil species were obviously 
closely related but not the same species (and I suspect not the same genus) 
as I think Wollemia was created specificially for this plant.
Cheers,
Peter

> From: "Colin Driscoll" <>
> To: "'TERRILL NORDSTROM'" <>,"'birding-aus'" 
> <>
> Subject: RE: [BIRDING-AUS] Wollemi Pines
> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 20:17:09 +1000
>
> This is a program to bring a prehistoric plant back from the brink of
> extinction as explained at the following link:
>
> http://www.wollemipine.com/
>
> Cheers
>
> Colin Driscoll
>
>
>   _____
>
> From: 
>  On Behalf Of TERRILL
> NORDSTROM
> Sent: Sunday, 23 October 2005 7:31 PM
> To: birding-aus
> Subject: [BIRDING-AUS] Wollemi Pines
>
>
> Sorry for being off-topic but on the news tonight was a story about the 
> sale
> of Wollemi Pines in Sydney today. Almost one million dollars was raised 
> with
> the sale of these pines. The story stated that the pines were grown from
> cuttings which were obtained from Wollemi National Park, so I wonder does
> this mean one could take cuttings or seeds from other rare plants from
> National Parks to grow and sell them. In fact why stop there, why not take 
> a
> few birds eggs and hatch them, they could then be sold. I know I am being a
> bit silly now, but when is it right to take something out of a National 
> Park
> and then sell it for a profit??    regards Terrill

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