Saturday 12/15/2001 11:58:35am Name: Olivier Pequin E-Mail: beijing@wanadoo.fr Homepage Title: Homepage URL: Location: Rennes, FRANCE Your feeling about butterfly preservation: I am definitely agree with you! Only by protecting butterflies habitats can we save endangered species! Entomologists are truly not a major predator for butterflies, but bulldozers are! However I think that a new danger is jeopardizing butterflies! With new media like internet, everybody can easily exchange or buy some protected species of every part of the world, it was impossible to do that in the past and I think those species can be overpurchased now!!! I just hope that I am wrong!

Friday 04/06/2001 1:10:06pm Name: ALEX GRKOVICH E-Mail: agrkovich@tmpeng.com Homepage Title: Homepage URL: Location: PEABODY, MASSACHUSETTS Your feeling about butterfly preservation: I agree with you entirely. The decline of so many species of Lepidoptera in North America (Regal Fritillary, etc.) has very little or nothing to do with collectors. In fact, I collect because I have a passionate interest in Lepidoptera; I have an interest because I have a love of them and of nature. I think it is horrible that, for example, I cannot collect and study butterflies in the mountains of the Gaspe Peninsula, which I have dreamed about doing since I was a little boy. The real problems are development, pollution, and perhaps to a much lesser extent, poachers. I believe that obeidiance to the statement on collecting as published by the Lepidopterists' Society, would be sufficient to protect our species from collecting.

Saturday 07/29/2000 5:04:27am Name: Orbert Reece E-Mail: robreece@andinanet.net Homepage Title: Homepage URL: http:// Referred By: Just surfed on it Location: Ecuador Comments: I believe very little is dono to protect the quality on habitats, not only their extension. On risk of sounding to fundamentalistic, we should encourage the creation and preservation of authentic sanctuaries, place where no one, not even investigators, should go.

Thursday 06/01/2000 4:08:54pm Name: scott smith E-Mail: scott@smimolding.com Homepage Title: Homepage URL: http:// Referred By: Just surfed on it Location: Layton,Utah-another planet :) Comments: Fictional comparisons........ A race of space aliens were exploring the cosmos looking for resources and for new planets to inhabit having exhausted all of the resources and space available on their home planets. This race of humanoids was having little success keeping their populations and conservation efforts in check, they concluded that exploring and exploiting new planets was the only solution. One day they happen upon earth. They find a wide variety of resources that they could use and find the planet a good size to inhabit with all of the right conditions except one, the pesky presence of oxygen, you see oxygen kills them just like carbon monoxide can kill humans. They need to eliminate this gas in order for their kind to survive here. These aliens are giants, easily 1000 times the size of humans. They trampled around earths surface exploring, hardly noticing the hundreds of humans left dead in their footsteps. Then one day one of the aliens noticed a human, they collected them by the hundreds, taking them back to their planet to learn more about them and study them. Some were used as entertainment in zoos, some even sold as pets, others were dissected and studied in collections. The bottom line is that this one alien found something very interesting that all the others deemed "useless" and in the way of progress. His one voice was not enough to sway the ways of the rest of his race, to wait and study them more before doing further damage to their environment. Even though they were warned they continued to plunder the earth and start to eliminate the oxygen so that they could make their new homes there and be comfortable on their new planet. Eventually they noticed the humans dying off by the millions, one group of the aliens decided to protect them so that they could enjoy them as pets and subjects of interest in their gardens, they were fascinating to watch and the kids looked cute playing with them, they must be worth protecting....?. They did not realize that the reason the humans were not as plentiful any longer was because of the lack of oxygen, not from the few taken by the other aliens to their home planets. So, because they could see the alien collectors attempting to catch humans in traps and nets, but could not see what damage the lack of oxygen was doing, they decided that it should be illegal for anyone to take any from the wild, they would go extinct for sure if this were to keep going on they thought. Then one day the last human was dead, sure, they were not collected into extinction, they were simply dead from lack of oxygen, and the knowledge that the aliens did not gain by studying them further was lost forever when the last one died. This knowledge could have been the key to saving their own race when the great plague wiped them out 10 years later..........leaving the earth a dried vacant rock floating in space. See any similarities here people?

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