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There just buying for decoration! I thought they were getting high off these things… Chinese are weird

Huh, abalone is poached by Chinese syndicates in South Africa as well. They work together with local gangs. A lot of indigenous succulents are poached here, most notably cultivars of Dropsera (sundew).

I don’t understand; one small piece can provide hundreds and thousands of tissue samples. So unnecessarily destructive.

15:48 i appreciate the reality here, That territory does need monitoring & action, Peasmcefully, By the citizens & the jurisdiction of law.

I don’t know what the guys were stealing from Point Lobos but they had scuba suits on and were carrying bags as there returned back to their van to put their street clothes back on in the parking lot. I reported them immediately to the park rangers. U are not supposed to be in the water at all there. It is a natural preserve.

Wish i was a park ranger or game warden. I love wildlife n the outdoors. My teenage years were wild so theyd never let me. Shitty

I have personally witnessed this in New Mexico, hundreds and hundreds of agaves being stripped off hillsides, even from federal lands.

Let me guess these plants are some sort of Asian aphrodisiac just like all the other natural resources the Chinese have raped from the environment.

Too bad they cannot enforce the illegal border crossings with the same amount of motivation.

Meanwhile in the rest of the world....

Please plant milk thistle

I wouldnt have been able to resist cutting their ropes after they begin climbing down.

I thought "succulent smuggling" was the same as human trafficking for sex.

Really great show. Thank you.

Deport them

Leave my plants alone..my taxes are fucked enough

Those are worth money ? I would think you just opened Pandora's box.

Takes a special kind of stupid to be a cop those ill-trained morons will shoot you because you took a plant or fish.

WELL DONE!!!!

They go to Africa to poach rhinos and elephants. And here to do this. They fueled the fentanyl crisis. COVID. They corrupted social media. It becomes overwhelmingly disgusting.

can you imagine what is happening in under developed countries, where the is less appreciation and enforcement? or where agents are susceptible to bribery?

Plant poachers succ.

Why though? Who wants these for that? Chinese traditional medicine can't account for all of the Korean demand right?

I sit and watch this, these plants cover the drywalls my ancestors built.....we call them "Guard houses" - dont know why, but they are full of chemical to treat skin problems

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Not a very smart idea to show the prices to everyone. Now you probably gonna see a 10x increase on the activity! Everyone and their mothers will be picking plants up!

Usual suspects

If Americans went to China and broke any laws... Wow, the Chinese would lose their minds. The Americans wouldn't get a slap on the wrist either....

So are these plants game or fish? I agree this activity needs to be stopped but this is more of a government overreach than it is a game and fish issue! Stay in your lane game and fish

Punishment should be to plat 10× what you got busted taking.

He "suspects" and has a "feeling" its like abalone. You need proof buddy

They sound like Republicans to me for their disdain of the laws and the importance of the environment/biodiversity/science. Trump types, except that Trump would think of them as subhuman because they were Asian/Mexicans.

someone will eventually cross breed marihuana and succulents to make a aloa / pot suave

so m if you clone a succulent from a small single stem or leaf and its a clone of the "wild" one is it still illegal?? and if you do it on a grand scale , . even when one sheds a seed to regenerate itself and you pick it up is it illegal to clone it ??

I mean... those plants are hard to reproduce? how hard is to reproduce those artificially once you got a few of them? like from seeds... or one branch, instead the whole thing.

There needs to be a public education campaign in Asia about how their consumption has an environmental impact on the places of origin of these plants. Educate the consumers… I work for a botanical garden and am always conscious of how the plants _may_ have been collected. Thailand has a problem with orchid poachers.

I thot this video was a joke...! But I see that it is NOT. WILD...plant poachers. Wow theyre beaYOUtiful...!

Horrible behavior…. What a crisis for everyone…

I am so glad to see the plants are getting replanted.

I was not aware. They should post signs to tell tourists to photograph and report people stealing plants.

This is the worst type of "documentary" material that exists - no explanation of why plants are so valuable, to whom, why market of it was made so enormous It's just some mix of stories about "criminals", usually the ones on the bottom - they are doing it because there is a spoiled upper class, not regular Asian person.

People suck

Do two Wongs make it right?

Open borders don't work... California created the problem

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This pisses me off, thank you to all the Monterey officials who are working to stop this. They are destroying our environment!

They would make it illegal if they caught someone selling blades of Grass for profit.

Sorry that punishment was a insult to the Natural Nature being Poached the Poachers spent more than the punishments 😂

No one mentions the immigration fraud. These foreigners came into America to work. To steal. What type of visa did they receive?

This guys my hero! I have a giant bowl of m&ms and I know some of these horrible preschoolers are committing robbery (actually they use sporks so might even be considered armed robbery) . I just ordered my ghillie suit from amazon so i can be just like mr paul blart mall cop too. We can be twinzies 🎉! Unless I get sporked in the process. Maybe my story will be the next vid! Update I’m pretty sure this preschooler is related to one wong. He’s always saying too wong too wong! He has to be related to one wong🤔🤔🤔.