My Road Trip with the Do-Gooding Cactus Smugglers

My road trip with the do-gooding cactus smugglers

I joined Ran Fowler on a dangerous journey into the Mexican desert to hunt for a rare Agave shawii. Despite strict laws against exporting succulents and the risk of prison, we illegally smuggled a cutting back to California. This adventure forces us to question whether poaching can ever be ethical when driven by a desire to preserve nature's most breathtaking specimens.

"There are plants and then there are plants that make you sink to your knees and weep."