At risk: Cycads in Cape Town’s Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens. The ‘living fossils’ are high value in the illegal plant trade. Photo: Hoberman Collection/Universal Images Group/Getty Images
Residents must have permits to have the endangered plants but they are victim to criminal demand for the ‘living fossils’
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