Illegal harvesting to supply the international horticultural market threatens some of South Africa’s endemic succulent species. The plants — sought for their beauty, rarity and often whimsical shapes ...

A biodiverse region in South Africa is experiencing a plant poaching crisis due to social media trends, driving some species to extinction and threatening the area's ecosystem. According to Yale ...

The Karoo sea. Yes, the Karoo has beaches, ocean, crashing waves and danger. And there are few seas wilder than the rumbling, tumbling roar of the saltwater that crashes onto the beaches of Oranjemund ...

Windhoek — The Succulent Karoo Ecosystem Programme (SKEP), a global initiative in support of conservation and sustainable development in biodiversity hotspots around the world, will next week hold its ...

Vanrhynsdorp, South Africa (7 April, 2003)-Local groups working to conserve the Succulent Karoo's biodiversity will receive much-needed assistance through US$8 million in grants from the Critical ...

Cape Town - On a tour inside a confidential facility where thousands of decades-old confiscated succulents are being held, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-SA), Cape Nature and the SA National ...

South African customs officials recently became suspicious when they noticed that shipments of "Made in China" children's toys were being sent, oddly, back to China. On closer inspection, the packages ...

Western Cape conservation authority, CapeNature has recently acquired a new property connecting two of its biggest nature reserves in the Karoo and extending the protected area to 215 044 ha. "The 12 ...

A biodiversity hotspot in a remote part of South Africa has become the hub of an illegal trade in protected plant species, with organised crime groups capitalising on overseas demand. "They've not ...

More than 1.6 million illegally harvested succulent plants — representing more than 650 different species — were seized by law-enforcement authorities in South Africa from 2019 to May 2024, as the ...

Illegal harvesting to supply the international horticultural market threatens some of South Africa’s endemic succulent species. The plants – sought for their beauty, rarity and often whimsical shapes ...