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In some places it has gotten so bad that a decade's worth of successful conservation efforts are being reversed: WWF says that in the period of 2000 - 2005 the African average for rhinos killed by poachers was about three per month, out of a total population of approximately 18,000.

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There are fresh reports that rising demand for rhino horn — once again in China — has contributed to an upsurge in rhino killings around the world, with a particularly disturbing surge in Zimbabwe due in part to the breakdown of order there.

A number of elephants were killed in oil palm plantations in Sumatra, while South Africa reporting a new record in rhino killing.

Not exact matches

A record 1,305 rhinos were killed illegally in Africa last year, most of them in South Africa, according to conservation groups.

Instead of tracking the animals, The Rhino Rescue Project wants to discourage poachers from killing them by injecting dye and possibly even poison into the rhino's horns.

Also, the dye they would use is similar to the dye used in ink packs to secure money at the bank, and the poison would be one designed to kill parasites, neither of which have negative side effects on the rhino or other animals in its ecosystem.

«Those three white rhinos that were pranged up here last fall were killed by a group that included a game scout,» Zaphiro told us.

South African poachers continue to use sophisticated methods to dehorn — and kill — rhinos while rangers are severely hampered in combatting the practice

And this spring, poachers broke into a zoo in Paris and killed a rhino for its horn.

The last Javan rhino in Vietnam was killed in 2010.

Rhinos are killed for their horns, which are sold illegally in Vietnam and China — at street prices higher than gold — for their purported medicinal qualities.

If the extinction trend continues apace, modern elephants, rhinos, giraffes, hippos, bison, tigers and many more large mammals will soon disappear as well, as the primary threats from humans have expanded from overhunting, poaching or other types of killing to include indirect processes such as habitat loss and fragmentation.

Last year alone, 668 rhinos were killed in South Africa.

TERRI: And then everything we do with the animals becomes a positive thing instead of this «oh no, we have to kill 35 rhinos instead of helping them.»

EARLIER this year, a hunter based in Texas paid $ 350,000 for the dubious privilege of being allowed to kill a male black rhino in Namibia.

More than 75,000 people signed an online petition at www.causes.com to stop the sale, saying black rhinos can not be protected if they are allowed to be killed.

In the case of the Sumatran rhino, however, some conservationists worry that without a long - term strategy for reversing the environmental pressures that are killing them off, captive breeding alone can never restore the wild population.

In 2013, 59 rhinos and 302 elephants were killed, compared with 30 rhinos and 384 elephants in 2012.

Poaching has surged in the last few years across sub-Saharan Africa, where gangs kill elephants and rhinos to feed Asian demand for ivory and horns for use in traditional medicines.

The money raised at the auction will be used to help the endangered black rhino but some people think killing a rhino, an old male, is just not the way to go about trying to «save» the creatures.

In the News: At an auction in Texas, someone spent $ 350,000 to hunt and kill a black rhino in the African country of Namibia.Black rhino are very endangered.

In the News: At an auction in Texas, someone spent $ 350,000 to hunt and kill a black rhino in the African country of Namibia.Black rhino are very...

To make him less attractive to poachers (who kill rhino for their horns), Sudan's horn has been removed.

The IFAW recently released this blistering statement by Jeff Flocken condemning the Dallas Safari Club for auctioning a license to hunt and kill a black rhino.

The cruel act of killing rhinos continues in Africa as Reuters reports that a record number of rhinos were killed in 2014.

The ranger tells us that poachers use helicopters to enter national parks to kill rhinoes just for their horns.

Instead, what it has is a story with boring missions and no real plot, a fairly enjoyable base defence portion, and Yetis that are easier to kill than rhinos or elephants in the base game in a snowy environment that is sparsely populated.

In 2012, poachers were responsible for the deaths of 668 endangered African rhinos, driven in large part by the demand for their «medicinal» horns in the black markets of Asia — up from just 17 killed in 2007.

WWF does a good job of explaining how good science and public shaming is needed to diminish the consumer demand fueling these killings before rhinos are driven to extinction.

Tigers and rhinos are killed to supply markets for alleged potency potions made from body parts.

WWF notes that 528 rhinos have been killed in South Africa so far this year, a new record.

Currently a rhino is butchered every six hours in Africa, the issues are many, but there's far too much money at stake to believe that legislation alone can make the difference, we had to find a way to protect these animals effectively in the field; the killing has to be stopped.

The answer is shaped by the shocking way in which the rhinos are killed and their horns removed, the widespread myths fueling the recent poaching escalation and the apparent inability of governments to tackle this massive problem with anything approaching competence.

Conservationists say that around 120 rhinos have been killed in the first two - and - a-half months of this year alone, putting 2012 on track to becoming the worst year of poaching on record.

In the last 18 months alone, more than 1,000 rhinos in Africa have been killed as a result of soaring demand for rhino horn products.

Throughout Africa, on average 50 rhinos are killed for their horns each month — and of course that doesn't include the losses of Indian, Sumatran and Javan rhinos, whose numbers are plummeting.

Air Shepherd is matching unmanned aerial vehicles with super computers to help rangers stop the slaughter — during tests in one area where 19 rhinos are typically killed monthly, there were zero deaths for 6 months.

Constantly outgunned by poachers» high - tech helicopters, machine guns, night - vision binoculars, bullet - proof vests and insane arsenal in the illegal trade of «medicinal» rhino horns that are worth more than gold, one pissed - off game manager outside of Johannesburg, South Africa wants to do the unthinkable: inject poison into horns as a deadly warning to would - be poachers and the consumers who would buy them.According to South Africa's The Times, Ed Hern, owner of the Lion and Rhino Park outside of Johannesburg, says injecting poison into rhino's horns will protect them from poachers and kill the demand for rhino horn right at the source, which is prized as a medicinal ingredient in Asian medicine.

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Here are some desperately depressing numbers to consider: 40,000 elephants and over 1,200 rhinos were killed by poachers in 2014 — a rate that will lead both animals to extinction within 10 years if things don't change.

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Du Toit has been growing increasingly concerned about the international outcry, which has led to a suspension by the Zimbabwean government of all hunting - related activities in the area where Cecil was killed, and what this means for the endangered black rhino:

It looks like poachers in Mozambique might have officially killed off the last of its rhinos.

The last Vietnamese rhinoceros, a subspecies of the Javan rhino, was killed by poachers in 2009, while the last western black rhinos, a subspecies of the black rhino, were killed off in Cameroon.