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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

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Poachers steal cycads from people’s gardens for lucrative illicit trade

Residents must have permits to have the endangered plants but they are victim to criminal demand for the ‘living fossils’

Tunicia Phillips