BATIMORE, Md. — Inside the plant shop B. Willow, owner Liz Vayda carefully tends to her livelihood. “Plants are the basis of life,” she said. Yet, they’re also the basis of something else: a lucrative ...

SILVER CITY, N.M.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today changed the designation of a rare New Mexico cactus from “endangered” to the less-dire “threatened,” reflecting its progress toward recovery ...

A type of tropical cactus native to the Florida Keys has become the first species in U.S. history to become extinct due to rising sea levels, researchers said. A massive stand of Key Largo tree cactus ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A cactus in Colorado is recovering, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service was able to take it off the endangered species list after it was considered a federally threatened species for ...

Cacti are the fifth most threatened group of species in the world, according to the first-ever global assessment of cacti. Theft and illegal trade for the horticulture industry and private collections ...

AUSTIN, Texas— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today changed the designation of the central Texas Tobusch fishhook cactus from “endangered” to the less-dire “threatened.” The change reflects the ...

MEXICO CITY – About a third of the world’s cactus species are threatened with extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature warns in a new report. The study evaluated 1,478 species ...

A team of researchers affiliated with multiple entities in the U.S. and the U.K. has found that the number of cactus species at risk of extinction is likely to increase this century as a result of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The Colorado hookless cactus is a small, ...