Durban5 mature baobabs lay on their sides in a car park for 3 months.
The alleged destination was Bidzina Ivanishvili’s park in Georgia, which took 8 baobabs from Kenya.
Someone dug them up in Limpopo without permits and trucked them 800km, journalist Tony Carnie found after an anonymous tip-off.
Criminal charges have been laid, but who answers for the missing permits is unresolved.
How each outlet framed it
- Daily Maverick leans critical
- reports the $21bn-a-year plant smuggling figure and the Ivanishvili botanical park trail, presented as a podcast episode
Sources: Daily Maverick