The popular Conophytum, Lithops and Tylecodon are part of the group of rare and aesthetically unique succulents which are now being illegally traded all over the world. Since 2019, over 1 million ...

A cactus is listed for $250,000 on its website. It's a plant called haageocereus tenuis, critically endangered plant that we acquired from a researcher who spent most of his life studying rare ...

And finally, an elderly black German Shepherd mix is credited with discovering and cultivating an ancient ice age tree fern.

The Center for Biological Diversity and WildEarth Guardians today secured court-ordered deadlines requiring the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to determine whether the Clover’s cactus and Rio Grande ...

According to Bruwer, there are parallel legal and illegal markets for succulents that at times overlap. The legal market, she says, supplies artificially propagated plants and derivatives, while the ...

Succulent exploitation raises serious environmental and conservation concerns. Dominique Prinsloo, a lead researcher for Traffic, says “the allure of rare and exotic succulents” has exerted ...