Poachers arrested for threatening rare wild Venus flytrap

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 | 3:56 p.m. CST; updated 7:31 p.m. CST, Wednesday, January 25, 2012

RALEIGH, N.C. — The Venus flytrap's precarious survival in the wild along the coast of the Carolinas faces an added threat from poachers looking to cash in by uprooting and selling them.

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