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Officials recovered the cactuses during two raids in Italy, in 2020. A Copiapoa solaris specimen is one of hundreds of cactuses that were recently recovered by Operation Atacama. (Image credit: Andrea Cattabriga) Rare cactuses taken illegally from the driest place on Earth are finally going home.  Cactuses in the genuses Eriosyce grow in arid regions in northern Chile, such as the Atacama Desert, and a number of these species are highly prized by specialist collectors for landscaping and as houseplants. However, Chile does not allow export of the cactuses, making them a popular target for poachers. Hundreds of the plants were stolen from the wild between 2013 and 2019, representatives of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said

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