In South Africa, a botanist protects rare succulents by making them less so

A “poaching pandemic” of succulent plants is underway in arid, sparsely populated Namaqualand, in the northwest of South Africa. Pieter van Wyk, one of this year’s Future for Nature conservation award winners, warns that poachers are rapidly stripping the 5,920-square-kilometer (2,286-square-mile) |Ai-|Ais/Richtersveld Transfrontier Park of threatened plants found nowhere else on the planet...
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