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

Mongabay
Mar 1, 2023, 9:44 pm139 pts
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)…

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