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.
There, she's almost raped outside
by a guy she picks up in the club, but Pascal (Flynn), a passing
game poacher, comes to her rescue.
Paul Doiron is the author of The
Poacher's Son (published May 11
by Minotaur Books), a crime novel about a rookie Maine
game warden who is thrust into the hunt for a murderous fugitive — his own father.
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.