Karel Du Toit, Commander of the Springbok Stock Theft and Endangered Species Unit, was awarded a Conservation grant to purchase a drone for tracking and deterring plant poachers in Namaqualand.
A tiny fraction of confiscated Lithops sp. being fostered at the Lithops Conservation Center in Namibia.
The CSSA provided a grant to Karel Du Toit, Commander of the Springbok Stock Theft and Endangered Species Unit to assist law enforcement. The grant was used to purchase a drone to assist South African law enforcement in their battle against succulent plant poachers.
For further information, read the interview of Karel Du Toit printed in The Cactus and Succulent Journal, Volume 95, No. 3. “CSI: Namaqualand, An Interview with Karel Du Toit.
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