Sarracenia Obsessed,
I think maybe you need to go back and read my post again, to say that I am not totally correct is kind of... eroneous? since we pretty much agree on everything...
the difference is that youre post deals with saving entire bogs, and my post dealt specifically with saving the plants themselves.
I also think we can pretty much gurantee that sarracenia will never go extinct, there are too many in cultivation, and well, you have two ways to look at it, man destroys the natural population, and they are gone from nature, or some great disaster wipes out mankind and all the ones in cultivation die... your only other option includes pretty much EVERYTHING dieing... hehh... that would indeed suck.
Any how... read the last part of my post, I said while the plants may not have a bright and shiney future, they do HAVE a future... a good point to ponder on.
Also, while I think that development and poaching having destroyed 95% of the CP habitat across the planet is enough, and that bog development does definately need to stop, I think everyone needs to realize that bogs can be re-made. They may not be exactly like they were, in every case actually, they won't be, but one example of bog reclemation is the project to reclaims hundreds of square miles of florida everglades...
I believe Spacer has created a bog off in the boonies of california or washington somewhere, and I know that Dustin (Nepenthes Gracillis) continues to be a caring and stalwart steward of a privatelly owned bog.
THe point of my post, and this one, was to ease goldtraps fears that these plants will dissapear in his lifetime, they won't, I can't say they will always be safe in the wild, but I think our race is slowly if asurredly becoming aware that destroying our environment for a parking lot is to put it lightlya tad bit foolish. Responsible people like yourself step up to the plate every day.
You all may not know it, but a portion of every sale at Petflytrap goes to societies that preserve Carnivorous Plants and their Bog Habitats.
Anyway... end of my tirade...