Poachers target South Africa’s ‘miracle’ plant with near impunity

Mongabay
Dec 20, 2024, 8:03 am58 pts
NIEUWOUDTVILLE, South Africa — It is the devil’s breath, this wind, blowing dry and mercilessly across a plain left threadbare by decades of overgrazing. With this wind at their backs, small groups of mostly men have toiled upslope, along historic shepherding paths to the top of an escarpment 600 meters…

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