Sentences with phrase «by rhino»

While South Africa is home to the world's largest population of rhinos, the effects of opening this trade is already being felt by rhino populations in Kenya and India, as demand increases and stimulates poaching.

All rhinos are threatened by the rhino horn trade.

I was awed by the rhino encounter and turned eagerly to discuss it.

There were no ERs or hospitals to rush to when you broke your leg or was gored by a rhino.

Horn sold by rhino farmers within South Africa will no doubt be smuggled out of the country, which will make it harder to police sales.

Up until about 2010, only a handful rhinos were poached in Africa but the number shot up when rumors circulated about the same time in Vietnam that a minister's relative was cured of cancer by rhino horn.

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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.

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

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.

Then again i hate to think that manu of our squad spaces are being eaten up by ceramics, oldies, rhinos and Lamposts

The African white hunter's confidence in the ballistic sanity of Yankee riflemakers has been restored recently by Winchester's introduction of its.458 Model 70, The African, designed to take care of elephant and rhino with a heavy bullet of the kind the African hunter knows and respects.

Match odds: Catalans 1/2 Draw 25/1 Leeds 13/8 TGT says: Leeds by 8 Betfred says: Catalans have huge battle on cards v Rhinos.

While the Rhinos were brushing aside Doncaster in Challenge Cup action last weekend the Giants were embarrassed by Championship side Swinton Lions on home soil.

Several of the project's units are directly across from Rochester Rhinos Stadium and it was recently named a finalist by The Community Design Center Rochester for the 2016 Robert Macon Award for Urban Innovation.

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

Iconic animals including tigers, rhino and elephants are being supplied by organised crime to satisfy demand from Asia for dubious medicines based on animal parts.

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.

A 2012 report by researchers there predict that both rhino species will become extinct in the wild in just two decades if poaching continues to accelerate.

But today, Africa's rhinos once again are facing extinction, despite a 1977 ban on the selling of rhino parts by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

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.

Sought after for their horns, white rhinos saw their population fall to 100 animals in South Africa by 1910, and only 2,410 black rhinos remained there in 1995.

A South African court has sentenced a rhino poacher to 77 years in jail, the heaviest penalty imposed by authorities desperate to halt a wave of poaching that is threatening the population of the endangered animals.

Protection for elephants, rhinos, sharks and trees was extended by states party to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora

«Woolly rhino neck ribs provide clues about their decline and eventual extinction: Fossils point to rare condition in the extinct species, possibly caused by inbreeding and harsh conditions during pregnancy.

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.

New infantry - style tactics of concealment and ambush by armed park rangers are credited with turning the tide in the war against poachers of the endangered rhino on one front, in South Africa's Madikwe Game Reserve.

The study, co-authored by scientists from San Diego Zoo Global and Mars Hill University, evaluated fertility issues in captive - born southern white rhinos and determined that diets including soy and alfalfa were likely contributors to breeding challenges.

By 2013, the scientists did not register a single rhino individual left.

I did not mention that the really scary, dangerous parts didn't make it onto film — like having a drugged lion walk up to me, having a rhino's horn miss me by 6 inches, or just being on the road at night with crazy South African drivers.

On the walls of these giant caverns are bison, bears, horses, and rhinos, drawn in ocher and charcoal 30,000 years ago; they predate the celebrated Lascaux cave paintings by some 10,000 years.

Cracking down on this has been difficult, with the illegal trade driven principally by the false belief that rhino horn can cure ailments from kidney stones to cancer.

At the end of March, Hildebrandt and two of his IZW colleagues flew back to Sabah on a uterine - rescue mission, accompanied by huge suitcases filled with veterinary paraphernalia: green scrubs, anaesthetics, antibiotics, drips, probes, a carbon - fibre catheter patented by Hildebrandt and his colleagues for the insemination of rhinos, and a gun case containing a 2 - metre - long video endoscope tailor - made to fit Puntung's reproductive tract.

It is a stinging irony that by far the biggest donor to BORA is the Sime Darby Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Sime Darby Group, based in Kuala Lumpur, one of the world's biggest producers of palm oil, the crop that led to the destruction of much of the rhino's rainforest home.

In a frank essaypublished in 1995, he accused the conservation community of «helping a species go extinct» by placing too much emphasis on captive breeding of the Sumatran rhino at the expense of «the more difficult job of protection and management in the field».

Mitochondrial DNA in these rhinos has evolved rapidly enough to reveal mutations that have accumulated since the Bornean population was sundered by a sea - level rise several thousand years ago from rhinos to the east on Sumatra and the Malaysian peninsula.

How about: 1) Heath Hens back and all birds genetically treatable; 2) Passenger Pigeons back; 3) Great Auks back; 4) Black - footed Ferrets disease - free; 5) Northern White Rhinos back; 6) Genetic - rescue tools in wide and responsible use; 7) Asian elephants liberated from lethal herpes; 8) Woolly Mammoths back; 9) Islands liberated from invasive rodents; 10) Lyme disease rare; 11) Hawaiian birds liberated from malaria; 12) A debate tool in use by the general public to work through controversy about new technologies.

As revealed by a few simple searches on the Etsy marketplace for terms such as «pre-ban», «real leopard», «real ivory» or «rhino horn», there are currently several hundred products made with parts of endangered animals listed on the site — the vast majority of them labeled as «vintage», «pre-ban»...

Rhinos are critically endangered, so the two animal welfare activists celebrated the recent births of two new calves in Nepal and Tanzania by checking them out in person.

Tinder hopes to save Sudan's species from extinction by raising $ 9M to fund in - vitro efforts in lieu of natural breeding to save the northern white rhino.

Blu - ray and Digital Bonus Materials Include: — Gag Reel — «Jumanji, Jumanji» Music Video by Jack Black and Nick Jonas — Five Featurettes: o «Journey Through The Jungle: The Making of Jumanji» o «Meet the Players: A Heroic Cast» o «Attack of the Rhinos!»

DVD Bonus Materials Include: — Gag Reel — «Jumanji, Jumanji» Music Video by Jack Black and Nick Jonas — Three Featurettes: o «Journey Through The Jungle: The Making of Jumanji» o «Meet the Players: A Heroic Cast» o «Attack of the Rhinos!»

Special Features Gag Reel «Jumanji, Jumanji» Music Video by Jack Black and Nick Jonas «Journey Through The Jungle: The Making of Jumanji» «Meet the Players: A Heroic Cast» «Attack of the Rhinos!»

Here's some of what Besson cuts into the action as Professor Norman lectures to the Sorbonne and Lucy gets a grip on what's happening: rapid - fire montages of wildlife rutting (the credits include a thanks to Howard Hall Productions for «Indian rhino mating»); a caveman inventing fire and sparking man's industrial creativity; and Lucy's namesake, the possible «missing link» between mankind and the ape world, kneeling by a stream and staring into the camera, as if to ask «Who are you people?»

He gets into trouble with a couple of aggressive rhinos, but is saved by Manfred the Mammoth (voice of Ray Romano), who is heading in the opposite direction of every other mammal in the world — towards the oncoming winter.

That balance suited Redmayne's preparation style; Newt's on - screen rapport with each of his cherished fantastic beasts — from the honey badger — inspired Niffler to the plantlike Bowtruckle — was informed in part by an animal Redmayne met offscreen, like the aforementioned rhino and a ticklish anteater.

Martin McDonagh's fiercely written, stabbingly pleasurable tragicomedy stars a magnificent Frances McDormand; watching it is like having your funny bone struck repeatedly, expertly and very much too hard by a karate super-black-belt capable of bringing a rhino to its knees with a single punch behind the ear.

There, he chooses sides with a beautiful Princess named Dejah Thoris (Lynn Collins) and the world's spear - wielding, rhino - riding indigenous race, the Tharks which are led by Tars Tarkas (Willem Dafoe).

Most of these include optional audio commentary by Ridley Scott, and some also include accompanying featurettes or other contextualizing material («Rhino Fight,» for example, includes CGI test footage of the rhino).

You side - scroll through a variety of stunning levels, which aren't all frozen wildernesses as the title suggests, but instead flow from underwater idylls marred by giant octopus tentacles, to seriously hot levels bombarded by falling volcanic matter, and forest realms where you ride on the back of your ever - faithful rhino, Rambi.