Date: unknown (2020 or earlier)
Details: illegal poaching of Nepenthes macfarlanei plants by Alfie Chiang from Taiwan, the owner of Fancy and Toothy Nepenthes Factory. Alfie discusses this crime openly, stating he gets poachers to climb mountains, complains Indonesian poachers cannot pack the poached plants, notes that out of 200 poached Nepenthes hamata, only 30 arrived alive (he states “I don’t care” as he can “ask them [poachers] to get more”, and perhaps most worryingly, states “if they [Nepenthes hamata] go extinct [in the wild] my collection can be more expensive”. Please remember these sentiments when buying plants for your collection.
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