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by pvaldes 957 days ago
A blacklist would be very easy to implement and much safer from a legal point of view giving peace of mind to the app creators.

All the invasive species are catalogued in public reports, to extract a list automatically from the pdfs should be trivial

same problem with endangered species on cites lists that are subject to regulation

Could I suggest to add a variable name in height and width fields? I assume that is meter (maybe cm would be better), but is unclear if we talk about inches or meter and at the end it can taint the database

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> "A blacklist would be very easy to implement and much safer from a legal point of view giving peace of mind to the app creators. All the invasive species are catalogued in public reports, to extract a list automatically from the pdfs should be trivial"

Or simply discourage international shipping. Personally I'd have thought a site like this would benefit from putting city and country at the centre of most activities, given how location-specific climate and even seasons are. That would also make it easier to support in-person activities such as plant swap meets.