Steve Blackwell, the Conservation Collections Manager, oversees the collection of rare and endangered plants, seed bank, and tissue culture lab.

As the demand for poached cactus on the international black market grows, the Phoenix garden seeks to educate the public on ...

SALT LAKE CITY (CN) - Federal grazing permits jeopardize threatened and endangered cactus that live only in three Utah counties, environmentalists claim in court. The Western Watersheds Project claims ...

Thursday’s edition of the Federal Register contains new rules from the Federal Communications Commission for 911 service providers, revisions to regulations that protect whistleblowers from the Office ...

cactus has been mutilated in a wilderness area northeast of Phoenix. A permitted outfitter guide notified forest officials Thursday about the cactus, which had its renowned crested top cut off. Forest ...

Millions of saguaro cactuses grow in the Sonoran Desert, yet only an estimated one in 200,000 exhibits the spectacular crown of the crested saguaro. Its rare beauty spawned the needle-in-a-haystack ...

According to scientists, 80 percent of the Earth’s living species are unknown to humans. Even as more are identified, more are disappearing — and sometimes, we don’t know what’s being lost until it’s ...

Jessica Rubenacker collects plants. Lots of plants. In this episode, we learn about how Jessica’s passion for plant collecting developed. Currently, there are more than 365 specimens in her collection ...

NYC's Cactus Store offers a wide range of unusual plants for sale, but their rarest is a Haageocereus tenuis, listed for sale on their website for $250,000. Gifted to the store's owners by a collector ...