I think that hobbists plays an important role in conservation.................
Always they are the first to get rare species....................
And Private Collections acts like a Noah Arch.......................
A place where government can get new varieties or species to develop it more deeply............
For now..........I am among the few people...............that have Thousand Fingers here in Brazil.............or maybe I am the only one that have this species.............
Maybe in the future................I can give pups to places like Embrapa............that develops new and desease resistent varieties................for exemple..............
Also hobbists are a giant source of Good and Healthy information.............many of them are almost true scientists...................
My idea is to introduce new varieties here in Brazil.............and Fehi varieties is specially intresting.................due the high levels of vitamins............
Here in my state..............São Paulo state................we have two kind of climates.................
One is Atlantic Forest................along the Mountains................in the Coast..........
But for Fehi.............interior Deciduous Forests seems to be much more intresting......................
The place is similar to harsh condition founded in Micronesia Atolls and Islands...................
Very very hot place....................drier and warmer than Atlantic Forest.................and the seasons are hard to tell apart.................the weather is almost constant......................
I was thinking about the salt content in the soils where Fehi are founded...................???
Also there are places with contents of salt........................and the water alkaline................hard...................due dissolved salts................
Plants like Mangoes..............have huge vegetative growth................in these places..................as well as Bananas.....................
Now I´m studing these articles of Micronesia Islands soils.............
Kosrae Islands............
http://soildatamart.nrcs.usda.gov/Ma...1/0/Kosrae.pdf
Chuuk Islands.............
http://soildatamart.nrcs.usda.gov/Ma...933/0/truk.pdf
Yap Islands.............
http://soildatamart.nrcs.usda.gov/Ma...B934/0/yap.pdf