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 ...

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 ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. South African customs officials recently became suspicious when they noticed that shipments of "Made in China" children's toys were being sent, oddly, back ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CapeNature ranger Hilton Bocks bends down to point out a tiny succulent, one of many spread over the stony plains of the Knersvlakte Nature Reserve on the West Coast. The pebbles crunch under our ...

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 ...