Texas’s cactus cops battle to save rare desert beauty from smuggling gangs
by Rob Walker from Environment | The Guardian on (#54TFT)
Agents on US-Mexico border seize thousands of plants illegally pulled out of the ground by criminals
Special agents in America have busted a smuggling ring on the US-Mexico border, but their haul is not drugs or the immigrants that President Donald Trump rails against with his big beautiful wall".
These smugglers were trafficking something all together less high profile - so-called living rock cactus" that grows uniquely on the arid plains of Big Bend national park in Texas.
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