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It seems inevitable that seeds of every plant will be in gardens of every conceivable corner of the earth. Not inevitable at all. Try arriving in Australia wit
by codeulike 6y ago
It seems inevitable that seeds of every plant will be in gardens of every conceivable corner of the earth.
Not inevitable at all. Try arriving in Australia with a piece of fruit in your hand luggage, or try arriving in New Zealand with mud on your walking boots, and see what happens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosecurity_in_Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosecurity_in_Australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosecurity_in_New_Zealand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosecurity_in_New_Zealand
- sandworm101 6y agoNot for rich people flying on thier own planes. They don't seem to get inspected. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-36052243 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-36052243
- lijf 6y agoI actually arrived in New Zealand with mud under my walking boots once - we had been trecking on Rarotonga, Cook Islands the day before, and I had not read the customs rules for NZ before filling in the paper slip, shortly before getting off the plane (if I remember correctly, it was approximately 10 years ago) - I had to wash the soles in a shallow tub with some sort of squishy pillow in it.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoTry ordering seeds thru Amazon? Who's looking at that?
- Amezarak 6y agoI ordered some seeds off Amazon from what I thought was a local seller for a regional plant. The seeds arrived months later, well after planting season, from Kazakhstan. The customs declaration called them plastic beads, but they were definitely seeds. I destroyed them, because I couldn't know for sure they really were what they said they were - seems unlikely a niche regional American plant would be available in Kazakhstan. Would Australia really be able to stop these cases where they lie on the customs form?