Sentences with phrase «as rhino»

The opportunity to spot game such as rhino, along with other nature - based tourism, are the main reasons most people cite for visiting Namibia7 — and tourism is growing.8 Some 600,000 people visited the country each year in the mid - 2000s.8 National parks contribute some N$ 1 billion to N$ 2 billion (U.S. $ 130 to $ 265 million) annually to the economy.8

The water level of the lake provides rich grasses for huge herds of buffalo and elephant as well as rhino, hippo and crocodiles and a great variety of antelope and plains game.

The hype on dinosaurs has portrayed some species as veritable roadrunners, faster than mammals such as rhinos and elephants.

The 301 species in the most danger from hunting include more than 60 % of all land mammal species weighing more than 1000 kilograms, such as rhinos and hippos.

This fantastical assemblage, like something from a Mad Max movie, would scoop up everything in its way: predators such as lions and cheetahs, lumbering endangered herbivores such as rhinos and elephants, herds of impala and wildebeest, family groups of warthogs and wild dogs.

She is a director for a non-profit called Global Conservation Force that helps many endangered species such as rhinos, elephants, giraffes and pangolins.

With the shadow of Bali's sacred Mount Agung looming in the distance, embrace the rare tranquillity of this retreat as rhinos, zebras and oryx graze contentedly at close range.

Mara River Safari Lodge Bali skillfully captures the aura and authenticity of the African wilderness, being a themed resort that offers a truly unique experience as guests embrace the rare tranquillity of this retreat as rhinos, zebras and onyx graze contentedly at close range.

The loss of Esmond Martin, found dead in his Nairobi home over the weekend, is a tragic development not just for his family, friends and colleagues, but for the entire international community and all those who supported the protection of Africa's elephants as well as its rhinos.

Not exact matches

The problem has gotten so bad that to stop poachers some conservationists are suggesting huge projects such as implanting GPS trackers to follow the rhinos.

The 53 - year - old has worked among elephants, lions and rhinos on several game reserves in the Kwazulu - Natal Province as a safari rest camp supervisor.

Missionaries treated Africans as cartons containing souls, just as poachers reduce elephants and rhinos to carcasses: carrying tusks and horns.

fred There are many millions of people who «witness» to such things as ghosts, fairies, reincarnation, UFO abduction, bigfoot, the medicinal powers of rhino horn, magic crystals, horoscopes, lucky charms, lucky numbers, and dozens of other things.

I have just understood that Arsenal's majority share holder — Stan Kroenke, is launching a TV channel, in the UK, dedicated to the blood sport of hunting endangered wild animals such as lions, rhinos and elephants.

A zebra - striped bus unloaded a group of chattering Germans, who proceeded to surround the three rhinos, petting their mud - caked hides, stroking the heavy frontal horn of the big male and posing for fake matador shots — windbreakers sweeping in clumsy verónicas as the camera shutters buzzed.

Meru, with its weird, two - trunked doum palms and strange red outcroppings — decomposed lava boulders covered with red sandy soil — is excellent country for elephant - watching and, until recently, for rhinos as well.

Rhinos Rugby was started in 2013 as a local Orange County rugby club by passionate rugby players and dads who dreamed to do better than the status quo for their kids and the game, and teach them life skills and provide college opportunities through the sport.

This fee did not include beverages (liquor, coke, beer: $ 160), extra mileage ($ 500), tips ($ 100), or our hunting licenses, which broke down as follows: two general licenses ($ 140 each), two elephant licenses ($ 210 each), two rhino licenses ($ 112 each), and one leopard and one Masai lion license ($ 70 each).

The rifle, weighing 9 1/4 pounds, may be used with a 510 - grain soft point on such game as tiger or with the heavy, steel - jacketed 500 - grain Full Patch on elephant and rhino.

Challenge Cup holders Hull FC look to defend the trophy for the first time in their history as they take on Leeds Rhinos at the Keepmoat Stadium.

All about the glory and the baubles for him, as the self declared PR Experts * coughs * who continuously refer to old Usmanov and his trips down to his traditional «local» boozer (spearmint white rhino No. 3?)

The harsh environment in which they operate, deprived of natural resources or infrastructure to raid (such as in eastern DRC or the Niger delta), makes ivory and rhino horn trade that much more important.

Lazio is a solid conservative as well with his anti gun and pro-abortion positions and his strong firm stance for RHINO consensus building philosphy...... a real nice guy no question... not a change agent... I guess NY is in such great shape we all don't mind sticking with status Cuomo candidates like Lazio....

Such evidence can help solve individual cases when poached horn is seized, even months or years later, as well as piece together the complex criminal networks responsible for poaching rhinos and transporting their horns to Asia.

But in Vietnam — a huge market for illegal rhino horn — it is being used as a hangover cure by the nouveau riche.

«In particular, we found a group called Laurasiatheria quickly increased their body size and ecological diversity, setting them on a path that would result in a modern group containing mammals as diverse as bats, cats, rhinos, whales, cows, pangolins, shrews and hedgehogs.»

John Stewart said, «During the Ice Age just over 40 thousand years ago in the north of England Neanderthals were living in an environment which included extinct animals like woolly mammoths, woolly rhinos and cave hyenas as well as the more familiar horses and reindeer.

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.

As of late Tuesday the Ol Pejeta Conservatory had yet to update its Web site, which still reads, «Visit the last three northern white rhinos» — a ticking alarm clock to which some humans are desperately trying to add time.

Previously, says Xu, most scientists presumed that large dinosaurs — like many of today's large animals, such as elephants and rhinos — didn't need insulation because their immense bulk helped them efficiently maintain body heat.

Mark Loewen of the Utah Museum of Natural History in Salt Lake City, who made the discoveries, describes Utahceratops as «a giant rhino with a ridiculously supersized head».

In northern Kenya, a privately owned rhino reserve is guiding communities that are rewilding former grazing lands at the same time as it fosters lucrative tourism facilities in a region once devastated by poaching.

The largest land mammal ever was a 6 - metre - tall hornless rhino known as Paraceratherium, which lived 30 million years ago and would have tipped the scales at 15 tonnes.

They're doing it by comparing the DNA profiles of items confiscated from suspects — like a horn or a smear of blood — to a database that contains DNA profiles for thousands of rhino carcasses identified as the victims of poaching.

In the last few months the Western black rhino and the South Florida Rainbow Snake have gone extinct, as far as official recordkeepers are concerned.

«We are not recommending placing rhino herds in Arizona or polar bears in Antarctica,» the group writes, as, for example, the polar bear would then devastate Antarctic penguin and seal populations that have never encountered such a predator.

Mandla Chauke was convicted of shooting three rhinos, as well as murder and possession of illegal firearms, after he and two other poachers cut through wire fencing and infiltrated the flagship Kruger National Park in 2011, officials said.

South Africa's Kruger National Park is inviting bids for rhinos under a plan to move 500 of the animals to safety to counter a wave of poaching for their horns, highly prized in some Asian countries as a sign of wealth.

The 36,000 - hectare nonprofit wildlife reserve is home to endangered black and white rhinos, elephants, lions, chimpanzees and Grevy's zebras, as well as four of the world's last seven northern white rhinos (Ceratotherium simum cottoni).

As time ran out for the woolly rhino, strange things happened.

Pitulko's team found 383 stone artefacts in the area, as well as many bones from ice - age Siberian animals including mammoths, reindeer, woolly rhino and bison.

The Dallas Safari Club will auction a permit to hunt a black rhino in Namibia, possibly fetching up to $ 1 million with proceeds going to protect the endangered animals in a move seen by some animal rights groups as ethically dubious conservation.

Tom Milliken, leader of the elephant and rhino program for the international wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC, said Namibia had 1,750 black rhino as of the end of 2012 and the population has been steadily increasing under good management and protection.

«Terrestrial animals like antelopes and gazelles, elephants and rhinos and giraffes — all these bones show very similar fracture and breakage patterns as Lucy,» adds paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson of ASU, co-discoverer of Lucy.

The genet might be using this rhino as a movable hunting blind, waiting for mice or insects to run out of the way of the big lumbering beast and then pouncing on them from above.

Around the world, beautiful iconic animals like Amur tigers or Javan rhinos are at risk of disappearing, as well as tens of thousands plants and smaller creatures that are the foundation of all life on earth.

In total, there were 30 horns from aurochs and bison as well as red deer antlers, and a rhino skull nearby.

Since then, it has been more popular to render them straight up, as on rhinos.

The big - cat fossils are the latest addition to a string of mammalian fossils recently found in Tibet, says Wang, including pikas, horses, hyenas and pre-Ice Age fauna such as the woolly rhino and Tibetan blue sheep.

That rhino eggs are in short supply needn't be a problem, says Pasqualino Loi, a reproductive biologist at the University of Teramo in Italy, who, more than a decade ago, used domestic sheep as a source of eggs and surrogates to clone an endangered sheep relative, the mouflon.