WideEyedCurious 🇺🇸 💙 🇺🇦 & 🇨🇦<p>The plan to save one of the Minnesota's most imperiled species — the ball cactus — is a desperate one. There are only a couple thousand left in the state, and many of those are in active granite quarries where they will eventually be dug up and killed. Nobody has tried planting or re-establishing wild populations in Minnesota before now. <a href="https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-endangered-species-ball-cactus-arboretum-big-stone-refuge-wildlife/600306961/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">startribune.com/minnesota-enda</span><span class="invisible">ngered-species-ball-cactus-arboretum-big-stone-refuge-wildlife/600306961/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Minnesota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Minnesota</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cacti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cacti</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CactiCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CactiCommunity</span></a></p>