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Illegal Cactus Trafficking Threatens Hundreds Of Species With Extinction by : Daniel Richardson on : 22 May 2021 13:33 PA Images The trafficking of illegal cacti is a serious issue that threatens hundreds of species with extinction.  Not many people realise cactus trafficking is a million dollar market that threatens biodiversity. However, this is the issue that cactus expert and president of the Association for Biodiversity and Conservation, Andrea Cattabriga, frequently addresses. Advert 10 In February 2020, Cattabriga was involved in a bust carried out in Italy. In this recovery of cacti,...

updated: May 21 2021, 14:34 ist Andrea Cattabriga has seen a lot of cactuses where they didn’t belong. But he’d never seen anything like Operation Atacama, a bust carried out last year in Italy. A cactus expert and president of the Association for Biodiversity and Conservation, Cattabriga often helps the police identify the odd specimen seized from tourists or intercepted in the post. This time, however, Cattabriga was confronted by a stunning display: more than 1,000 of some of the world’s rarest cactuses, valued at over $1.2 million on the black market. Almost all of the protected pla...