The Maasai women of Kenya's laikipia county are overcoming an environmental hazard caused by an invasive prickly pear, transforming it into bio-gas and preserved fruits. Parts of the cactus called opuntia is edible, but its outer layers are very harmful to livestock which try to graze on it.

Kenyan Maasai women turn cacti into enterprise

The people living in the Swiss canton of Valais have been habituated to seeing snow-clad mountainsides in winter and ones filled with edelweiss flowers in summer.

Global warming: Cacti colonise Swiss mountainsides as snow cover recedes, threaten biodiversity

As the world faces a spike in temperature, experts have now made a grim prediction over the future of cacti survival in the future. According to new research, around 60% of the world's cactus species will end up in unideal climates over the coming decades.

Cactus species to be affected by increasing heat, says study

Andrea Cattabriga has seen a lot of cactuses where they didn’t belong. But he’d never seen anything like Operation Atacama, a bust carried out last year in Italy.

Global cactus traffickers are cleaning out the deserts

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