South Africa's succulents - small, fleshy, green plants sometimes shaped like roses or stars, and often found peeping out ...

China has become a major source of demand for wild succulents in the last few years, but an internet campaign there to educate people about the illegal succulent trade has seen some results.

Some species are now functionally extinct in the wild. This means their populations are too small for them to keep reproducing. If the same approach were used to stop succulent harvesting ...