Collectors plundering cactuses to extinction
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 - 08:20
in Biology & Nature
Black-market collectors willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for rare cactuses are putting more than 30 percent of the species at risk for extinction, according to a paper released Monday. The first global assessment of the problem, completed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, revealed that cactuses are the fifth-most-threatened group […]