Sentences with phrase «hunting of rhinos»

«The previously poorly regulated trophy hunting of rhinos fed horns into illegal supply chains and helped stimulate the current upsurge in rhino poaching.

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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.

On the road in we met with Denis Zaphiro, an old hunting buddy of both Winter and Ernest Hemingway, and stopped to hear his appraisal of the elephant and rhino situation at Meru.

The flat, brushy country of the Northern Frontier is an excellent area in which to hunt rhinos.

In South Africa and Namibia, a strong conservation ethic — coupled with financial incentives for ownership, management and protection of rhinos for tourism and legal trophy hunting — gradually helped to reduce poaching and restore rhino numbers.

Private ranchers own around 5,000 of South Africa's 20,000 rhinos, part of a thriving game farming industry in Africa's most advanced economy that caters to eco-toursim and hunting.

«TRAFFIC believes Namibia has demonstrated a sound conservation policy for its rhinos over the years and does not oppose Namibia's legitimate execution of its hunting quota,» Milliken said in an email.

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.

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.

In the News: At an auction in Texas, someone spent $ 350,000 to hunt and kill a black rhino in the African country of Namibia.Black rhino are very endangered.

In the News: At an auction in Texas, someone spent $ 350,000 to hunt and kill a black rhino in the African country of Namibia.Black rhino are very...

Game species commonly found in and around Marloth Park area include elephant, buffalo, lion, rhino, impala, kudu, waterbuck, giraffe, bushbuck, zebra, leopard, cheetah, hyena, jackal, hippo, infrequently cape hunting dogs and a variety of smaller antelope such as duiker and steenbok.

Lemtongthai was convicted of running a crime syndicate which used white rhino trophy hunts as a front to export rhino horn to the black market in Asia.

Du Toit has been growing increasingly concerned about the international outcry, which has led to a suspension by the Zimbabwean government of all hunting - related activities in the area where Cecil was killed, and what this means for the endangered black rhino:

Without the safari hunting, conservancies would not survive against other land - use pressures, so safari hunting has a crucial indirect, positive impact on the conservation of rhinos and many other rare species such as cheetahs.»

The results revealed that wildlife loss outpaced the rate of deforestation, and that large, commercially valuable wildlife such as Sumatran tigers, rhinos and elephants declined faster than small primates and deer, which are only hunted as crop raiders or for subsistence.

But in hopes of preserving the rhino, hunted illegally for their coveted horns, conservationists offered a lifeline to the threatened species by relocating seven of them to a wildlife reserve in South Africa in 1964.

For now at least, as the first of 32 Eastern Black Rhinos are released to their homeland after their ancestors were hunted to near extinction, things are finally looking up.