The cacti are now in an Atacama Desert greenhouse managed by the National Forest Corporation of Chile (Conaf), although some local reports suggest some of the plants may have gone missing.

ROME (AP) — Armed with a search warrant, Italy’s police wildlife unit entered the house of a suspected cactus trafficker, finding over 1,000 rare cacti poached from Chile's Atacama Desert in a ...

Andrea Cattabriga has seen a lot of cactuses where they didn’t belong. But he’d never seen anything like Operation Atacama, a raid carried out last year in Italy. A cactus expert and president ...

The iconic southwestern plants are made for desert conditions, but climate change means that there is such a thing as too much heat. By Angely Mercado Published July 31, 2023 Earther Conservation ...

COPIAPO, Chile >> When my plane touches down at the Desierto de Atacama Airport in northern Chile, it feels as if I’ve been launched out of orbit to some Martian landscape. Aside from the small ...

A huge cactus bust in Italy has resulted in the confiscation of over 1,000 rare cacti poached from Chile's Atacama Desert. Via AP news wire. Friday 18 June 2021 12:00 BST. Italy Cactus Bust.

A huge cactus bust in Italy has resulted in the confiscation of over 1,000 rare cacti poached from Chile’s Atacama Desert. Skip to content. Breaking LIVE: 2024 Bank of America Shamrock Shuffle ...