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My road trip with the do-gooding cactus smugglers
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- smcg 4mo agoSo he's an illegal poacher of another country's plants, but he's convinced himself it's a good thing. It's not.
- m463 4mo agoYou're correct. But that said, it seems like something about it all is murky. For example, lots of pet parrots probably trace back to some sort of operation like this, and end up preserving the species.
- IAmBroom 4mo agoFinding a silver lining in a bad cloud doesn't justify the bad cloud one bit.
- onlypassingthru 4mo ago'Fowler’s A. shawii, with its fused spines, was not typical; from a conservation perspective it would have been more helpful to take one with normal spines.' Unless it's a new variety/species and not A. shawii?