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When Eugéne Hahndiek, conservation manager at Nuwejaars Wetlands Special Management Area, posted a photo of a dainty fynbos flower on iNaturalist in August 2022 he never thought it could be a species believed to have been extinct for 42 years.
The last official sighting of the flower was in 1981.
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It's just one kind of succulent that's being pulled out of the wilderness at what scientists say are alarming rates, and many of the rare plants some of which are up to 100 years old.
South African customs officials recently became suspicious when they noticed that shipments of "Made in China" children's toys were being sent, oddly, back to China. On closer inspection, the packages did not contain toys at all but were filled with poached contraband. Chinese criminal syndicates, often the very same ones that already have established smuggling…