BOTANICAL GARDENS: Kirstenbosch: Drowning in neglected poached plants

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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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