Business Insider Africa on MSN3 天
Rare unique plants in South Africa and Namibia have given rise to a familiar problem
South Africa and Nambia's biodiversity has given rise to a wave of illegal activities, orchestrated by organized crime groups ...
Mongabay on MSN2 天
Rare new Guinean flower is ‘canary in a coal mine’ — but in an actual iron mine
Martin Cheek first entered the Boyboyba Forest in southeastern Guinea in September 2022 to look for an extremely rare plant ...
The South African on MSN1 天
These rare, unique-looking Karoo succulents are being traded illegally
Between 2019 and 2024, South African authorities seized 1.6 million illegally harvested succulents. Conservationists reckon ...
Traffic12 天
Are your houseplants fuelling extinction? South Africa’s rare succulents face silent crisis
New research from TRAFFIC unveils rampant illegal trade of Southern Africa’s endangered succulent plants, pushing some of the ...
BBC5 个月
Rare plants hidden in toys - and other trafficking tactics
In total 23,000 plants known as conophytum were found in that consignment in April 2022, investigators with the Endangered Species Unit of the South African Police Service told the BBC.
BBC1 年
A third of tropical African plants face extinction
A third of tropical African plants are on the path to extinction ... and another third of species are likely rare, potentially becoming threatened in the near future. This is mainly due to ...