U of Kent CITES Poll

mormodes · Sep 30, 2014

A grad student at the University of Kent in the UK is asking for help with her research on CITES and orchid growing around the world. She's designed a short poll which can be answered in various languages. I'm posting it here because we are a very international group. Might be nice for her to get non-US oriented answers to her questions.

Mostly it has to do with CITES and our understanding of it.

I got this twice, once directly from the student - which I deleted immediately, *G*. Then it was passed along from a friend suggesting help. So I figured 'why not'? Some of you all may have already seen it. I searched Slippertalk to be sure I wasn't duplicating the effort, didn't see anything, but if its been posted before, sorry.

German: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1619973/orchideen1
English: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1619973/orchidsurvey2
Spanish: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1619973/orquidea1
Indonesian: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1619973/anggrek3
French: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1619973/orchidee

ronan · Sep 30, 2014

lol! anonymous...

KyushuCalanthe · Sep 30, 2014

Did it. Something needs to be done on the ground IN THE COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN or we won't have any wild orchids left to fuss about.

naoki · Oct 1, 2014

Thank you for the link, Mormodes. It sounds like an interesting project. I thought that the way to correct data in the first couple pages is rather bizarre. It's probably gauging the experience level, but it seems to be difficult to interpret. I agree that something needs to be done in the source end, but considering the differences in our values, I think that it is probably not an achievable task in the near future...

NYEric · Oct 1, 2014

I notice that it is statistically trying to weed your answers down to see if you are breaking CITES rules.

polyantha · Oct 1, 2014

If you are afraid eric you can use hidemyass.com and you are anonymous. But I answered the questions without that.

NYEric · Oct 2, 2014

I'm not worried. I just lied! :evil:

Secundino · Oct 2, 2014

Most likely. I did it and sent it this time (had seen it before.) Don't like questions with second intentions. If they want to know if I cheated CITES and why, they should ask.