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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
Buoyed
by the antipoaching efforts of the Botswana government and local conservation groups, the philanthropic arm of the (impeccably renovated) Sanctuary Chief's Camp has helped reintroduce
populations of both black and white
rhinos to the Okavango Delta.
Chitwan is just 20 minutes
by flight from Kathmandu or 5 hours
by drive.Covering an area of 932 Km, Chitwan national park is the home for 450 species of birds, big
population of one horned asian
rhinos, deers, boars, bisons, buffalos, peacocks, leopards and bengal tigers.
Each creature's fleshy analogue has found itself and its comrades on some watch list for nigh extinction: the seas have run dangerously low of our gilled friends; nearly all the world's
rhinos have been shot for trophies
by some member of the Trump family or their kind; and orca and shark
populations have declined precipitously.
The total
population of black
rhinos plunged to less than 2,500 in 1993 from 70,000 or so in 1970, in a slaughter largely driven
by the market for
rhino horn and related products in Asia.
High - tech poaching syndicates to blame South Africa's
rhino population is being beseiged
by well - organized and well - armed
rhino poaching syndicates that are likely colluding with industry insiders.
The report underscores the importance of the work being done
by Goldman Prize winners like Silas Siakor (2006), who is fighting for stricter logging regulations in Liberia and around the world; Fatima Jibrell (2002), who is working to provide sustainable economic alternatives to the illicit charcoal trade in Somalia; and Raoul du Toit (2011), who has dedicated his life to protecting Southern Africa's last remaining
rhino populations from poachers.
Rhino populations are being hammered
by poachers, steeping Africa in blood and pushing the species ever - closer to extinction to satisfy the demand for
rhino horn in Vietnam and other countries — a demand largely based on the myth...
Since IAPF took over security operations in Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, not one
rhino has been poached and the
population of critically endangered black
rhino has increased
by 133 % since 2010.
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.