Zimbabwe’s national flower faces extinction
HARARE // Zimbabwe’s national flower, the flame lily, is facing possible extinction because of illegal harvesting and trade. Togara Makotose, 27, a flame lily poacher from Epworth, a slum east of Harare, said he knows that picking the flower and selling it is illegal, but that he can make a good living from it. He gets the flowers from forests in Dambakurimwa, 10km north of where he lives, and sells them for US$8 per bouquet on a roadside in the affluent suburb of Borrowdale, a lot of money in impoverished Zimbabwe. More online at The National…
