Sentences with phrase «for rhinoceros»

Asian demand for rhinoceros horn for medicinal use has driven poaching in Africa and Asia to a 15 year high, WWF reports.

Not exact matches

It goes on to say under the entry for «rhinoceros» that: «a genus of quadrupeds of two species, one of which, the unicorn, has a single horn growing almost erect from the nose.

Even today, the scientific name for the Asian one - horned rhinoceros is «Rhinoceros unicornis,» (the same word as mentioned in the Latin Vulgate) while the two - horned black rhinoceros is the «Diceros bicornrhinoceros is «Rhinoceros unicornis,» (the same word as mentioned in the Latin Vulgate) while the two - horned black rhinoceros is the «Diceros bicornRhinoceros unicornis,» (the same word as mentioned in the Latin Vulgate) while the two - horned black rhinoceros is the «Diceros bicornrhinoceros is the «Diceros bicornis.»

Laudrup's record is promising, if a trifle patchy, but there's nothing to suggest that his Swansea team are about to batter through the Premier League like a rhinoceros late for a really important train.

Surf Scoters, Red - throated and Pacific loons, and Whimbrels were headed for Alaska or interior Canada, while Black Oystercatchers, Glaucous - winged Gulls, and Rhinoceros Auklets were already in the throes of nesting on the Washington coast.

I got skin as thick as a rhinoceros so I'm ready for anything.»

In his email, Martens mentions everything from lowering the cap on greenhouse gas emissions and securing funding for long - neglected flood control structures and coastal erosion projects to banning the sale and importation of elephant and rhinoceros ivory and undertaking «one of the largest additions to the forest preserve in the state's history.»

As a professor of ecology and biology at the University of Montana in Missoula, he had spent 20 years examining the mating and territorial behavior of dung and rhinoceros beetles, well known for their very large horns, to understand why some insects spend so much energy building big weapons.

For instance, the last birth of an endangered northern white rhinoceros was in 2000.

But the approach isn't just useful for human DNA — scientists are now using it to catch rhinoceros poachers in Africa, The New York Times reports.

Purported to treat a variety of ailments, from fevers to measles to epilepsy, rhinoceros horns have been prized ingredients in Chinese medicines for thousands of years.

For instance, the orphaned male elephants at Pilanesberg and another reserve made headlines for attacking and killing 107 rhinoceroses over a 10 - year period, something that elephants had never been reported to For instance, the orphaned male elephants at Pilanesberg and another reserve made headlines for attacking and killing 107 rhinoceroses over a 10 - year period, something that elephants had never been reported to for attacking and killing 107 rhinoceroses over a 10 - year period, something that elephants had never been reported to do.

Rhinoceros numbers are dwindling extremely fast, especially the last two decades, resulting in near extinction for some species and the total extinction of the western black rRhinoceros numbers are dwindling extremely fast, especially the last two decades, resulting in near extinction for some species and the total extinction of the western black rhinocerosrhinoceros.

The worst eyesight for an animal its size belongs to the rhinoceros, which at 15 feet can't tell a man from a tree.

A South African company has been indicted in Alabama for selling illegal rhinoceros hunts to Americans and secretly trafficking in the endangered animals» horns

DUBBO, in central New South Wales, seems an unlikely place for a programme devoted to conserving the black rhinoceros, an animal native to Zimbabwe.

At a March meeting of the Sumatran Rhinoceros Global Management and Propagation Board in Jakarta, all parties put their signature to a «Letter of Intent for Collaboration».

Meet Rambi, the rideable, sleepy - eyed rhinoceros who doesn't mind stepping on a few thorns in the name of giving Donkey Kong a ride in Donkey Kong Country Returns for the Wii.

Where Rhinoceros Eyes is about dreaming, The Dreamers is about waking up, and while the conversation about our multifoliate relationship to our art is endlessly fruitful, it's both dispiriting and hopeful that when one of film's brightest lights begins to dim, searching the streets for an angry fix as it were, others are hungry to howl in his place.

«Musso» means «rhinoceros» in Korean, which seems a little more apt for a big, rugged pick - up truck.

«For importing the rhinoceros.»

At eight years old, Alyssa Carter is already a hero for the endangered Rhinoceros.

Standing Laparoscopic Surgery for Uterine Biopsy in a Southern White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum).

«Now I want to prepare you for what to do in the event that we are spotted by a rhinoceros, a tiger or a bear.»

For bird watchers, we have many migrating bird species in the Pacific Flyway including rhinoceros auklets, pigeon guillemots, harlequin ducks, sooty shearwaters and bald eagles.

[1] It is an important breeding site for northern elephant seals and the endangered Steller's sea lion, as well as several species of seabirds, including rhinoceros auklets, Brandt's cormorants and western gulls.

The C.N.P. known the over for being one of the most, well - managed parks in Asia, is home for more than 550 varied species of birds, the Great Asian one - horned rhinoceros, the Bengal tiger, the leopard, the sloth bear besides deer, monkeys, crocodiles and other small mammals.

Think how sad it would be for your children and grandchildren to grow up without the ability to visualize a rhinoceros.

It is renowned for its protection of one - horned Rhinoceros, crocodile and the Royal Bengal Tigers.

I recommend that everybody submit at least one Klik & Play game to the kart, so that we can have more content for the randomizer to use in the most expialidociously rhinoceros ways possible.

Rounding off the selection you have Rhinoceroses, which are propelled across the area for a limited time, decimating all that they touch and Pandas, which execute a similar action once they have eaten some bamboo.

Walton Ford's obsessively realistic and grandly - scaled 2008 triptych in watercolor, gouache, ink, and pencil on paper, Loss of the Lisbon Rhinoceros (est. $ 550 - 750,000), -LSB-...] sold in the room for a record $ 1,022,500.

The Natural Resources Defense Council offered origami rhinoceroses, while the local chapter of Human Rights Watch presented an installation of pillows for sale for $ 159 each.

The major exhibitions of the 1980s (Palazzo delle Esposizioni di San Marino, 1983 and Guggenheim in New York, 1989) were characterised by a pictorial practice that took on increasing significance, becoming «long and fast», a natural habitat for wild, «prehistoric» animals such as the rhinoceros, crocodile, tiger, bison, owl, all of which were also bearers of a clear primacy.

In her grief, she finds his tiny pet rhinoceros named Cornelius, who soon grows far too large for the house and must be set free.

Every day, rhinoceros across Africa and Asia are getting caught in the crosshairs of poachers to supply a lucrative black market demand for rhino horn.

He sent an earlier dispatch from central Kenya, where he is examining issues on the front lines of the war on elephants (and rhinoceroses) fueled by Asian appetites for ivory and other products derived from wildlife.

(Last fall, she joined the «Say No» campaign run by the conservation group WildAid aimed at cutting demand for ivory and rhinoceros horn.)

After I posted on the seizure of tons of poached Asian pangolins bound for Chinese meat and medicine markets, Dale R. McIntyre, a frequent commenter from Bartlesville, Okla., submitted a vivid sketch of an encounter with a white rhinoceros and, shortly afterward, a posse of poachers gunning for the last black rhinos in the same African park.

Namibia's Etosha National Park, designated as a game reserve in 1907, is one of Africa's major wildlife sanctuaries.2 It centers around a huge, parched depression of silver - white minerals — the Great White Place or Place of Dry Water for which the park is named.3 This ancient, evaporated lake deposit of salt minerals fills with water only after heavy rains.4 The park harbors more than 100 types of mammals, including rare and endangered species such as the black rhinoceros, black - faced impala, tssesebe, and gemsbok.2 Etosha is also home to more than 300 species of birds and more than 100 species of reptiles.4

Jacobsohn and the organization her and Owen - Smith founded, the IRDNC, are currently working on a community - led conservation program which provide training and jobs for local rangers and game guards whose goal is to stop rhinoceros poaching in Namibia's Kunene region.

But whatever it's called, it's clear that palm oil production is leading to massive deforestation due to carbon - emitting activities like slashing and burning the forest to make way for palm plantations, as well as habitat loss for a wide variety of species like orangutans, tigers, rhinoceros, and elephants.

One more symbol of the rising global demand for rhino horn and its devastating effect on rhinoceroses in both Africa and Asia: The Guardian reports that the female white rhino in South Africa's Krugersdorp nature

For example, many first - time safari goers aim to see the Big Five - African lion, African elephant, Cape buffalo, African leopard, and the rhinoceros - that are the hardest and most dangerous African animals to track on foot.

The species (there is still ongoing debate whether it is a distinct species or a subspecies of the white rhinoceros) is called Ceratotherium simum cottoni and is thought to have gone extinct in the wild over 10 years ago, even though it is still listed as critically endangered (possible extinct in the wild) in the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species, an entry that was last updated in 2011.

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