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Africa · 4 hrs ago
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BOTANICAL GARDENS: Kirstenbosch: Drowning in neglected poached plants
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Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens in South Africa is struggling to care for plants confiscated from poachers, raising questions about whether state rescue operations are effective if the plants subsequently die from neglect in storage facilities.

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BOTANICAL GARDENS: Kirstenbosch: Drowning in neglected poached plants
The plants were stolen from the wild, rescued by the state, then delivered into another kind of danger. Inside Kirstenbosch’s greenhouses, South Africa’s plant-poaching crisis has become a grim question: what happens when confiscation saves plants only long enough for them to die?
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