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Rare poached cacti found in Italy sent home to native Chile

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Italian police find over 1,000 rare cacti poached from Chile’s Atacama Desert. The February 2020 discovery became one of the largest known cactus busts. Cacti experts, police, conservationists and governments are working to return the plants.

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News18 India

Italy's Suspected Cactus Trafficker Poached over 1000 Rare Cacti from Chile's Desert

What Lt. Col Simone Cecchini and his team found in Senigallia, a town on central Italy's Adriatic coast, were hundreds of Copiapoa cinerea and Eriosyce cacti that had been uprooted from the desert.

3 years ago·India

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CTV News

Rare poached cacti found in Italy sent home to native Chile

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 locked room.

3 years ago·Canada

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Associated Press News

Rare poached cacti found in Italy sent home to native Chile

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 locked room.

3 years ago·United States

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ABC Australia

Rare Chilean cacti returned home after Italian police raid smuggling operation

Italian police return rare and threatened cacti from a Chilean dessert that were stolen and sent to Italy, where they would be sold to customers in Asia.

3 years ago·Australia

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MY Northwest

Rare poached cacti found in Italy sent home to native Chile

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 locked room.This February 2020 discovery became one of the largest known cactus busts and the catalyst for an international effort among cacti experts, police, conservationists and governments to return the plants to their native countries.What Lt. Col Sim…

3 years ago·Tacoma, United States

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