South Africa's succulents - small, fleshy, green plants sometimes shaped like roses or stars, and often found peeping out between rocks in dry areas - are sought after by an increasingly ...

Mlungele M. Nsikani receives funding from the South African National Biodiversity Institute. He is affiliated with the Society for Ecological Restoration. Invasive plants and trees were introduced ...

says South Africa’s Succulent Karoo, the Clivia mirabilis, is one of the country’s most treasured plants. However, it is rapidly disappearing due to poaching, its numbers dropping by 80% in ...

A biodiversity hotspot in a remote part of South Africa has become the hub of an ... "They've not just stolen our land or our plants, they've stolen our heritage as well," a livestock farmer ...