Succulent Smuggling Consequences

Succulent Smuggling Consequences

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Season 1, Episode 911 , Segment 5

Kavanaugh Confirmation, Drawn Together, Succulent Smuggling

Episode: Kavanaugh Confirmation, Drawn Together, Succulent Smuggling

  • Oct 1, 2018 9:00 pm
  • 17:40 mins

Guest: Patrick Foy, Captain of Regulations, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Law Enforcement Division There’s a lucrative black market in China and Korea for succulent plants that grow well in the American West. Smugglers in California have been caught with 10s of thousands of plants worth millions of dollars. This is not exactly how to fix the trade imbalance.