The unprecedented onslaught against South African succulents now includes beautiful and rare clivias, which are being illegally harvested to extinction to supply markets abroad. In 2023, the ENACT organised crime project outlined the global illegal trade in southern Africa’s succulent flora, and suggested ways to strengthen implementation of South Africa's National Response Strategy and Action Plan. In September 2024, guided by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), stakeholders met to consider progress, using ENACT's recommendations as a benchmark. The meeting also aligned efforts with evolving trends in the trade. More than a million succulent plants have been intercepted since 2019, primarily in the Northern and Western Cape, with illegal trade driving at least 11 species to functional extinction in the wild. But in 2024, seizures declined significantly. From January to September 2024, about 20,000 plants were seized, few of which were previously targeted succulents - presumably because the market has been saturated. Job opportunities presented by increased mining and wind farm developments could also have reduced the number of active harvesters.