Succulent Smuggling Consequences

(Originally aired October 1, 2018) Guest: Patrick Foy, Captain of Regulations for the 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 we hoped to fix the trade imbalance.