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Jessie Byrd, manager for the Pima County Native Plant Nursery in Tucson, holds a Ariocarpus fissuratus, a rare plant that was confiscated from someone crossing the border.

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Inside the Fight Against the Growing Cactus Black Market

The booming succulent market is creating wide-scale theft of cacti from national parks. Can microchip tracking solve the problem?

Annette McGivney