Sentences with phrase «killings of rhino»

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A record 1,305 rhinos were killed illegally in Africa last year, most of them in South Africa, according to conservation groups.

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.

Also, the dye they would use is similar to the dye used in ink packs to secure money at the bank, and the poison would be one designed to kill parasites, neither of which have negative side effects on the rhino or other animals in its ecosystem.

If the extinction trend continues apace, modern elephants, rhinos, giraffes, hippos, bison, tigers and many more large mammals will soon disappear as well, as the primary threats from humans have expanded from overhunting, poaching or other types of killing to include indirect processes such as habitat loss and fragmentation.

TERRI: And then everything we do with the animals becomes a positive thing instead of this «oh no, we have to kill 35 rhinos instead of helping them.»

EARLIER this year, a hunter based in Texas paid $ 350,000 for the dubious privilege of being allowed to kill a male black rhino in Namibia.

In the case of the Sumatran rhino, however, some conservationists worry that without a long - term strategy for reversing the environmental pressures that are killing them off, captive breeding alone can never restore the wild population.

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...

The cruel act of killing rhinos continues in Africa as Reuters reports that a record number of rhinos were killed in 2014.

In 2012, poachers were responsible for the deaths of 668 endangered African rhinos, driven in large part by the demand for their «medicinal» horns in the black markets of Asia — up from just 17 killed in 2007.

WWF does a good job of explaining how good science and public shaming is needed to diminish the consumer demand fueling these killings before rhinos are driven to extinction.

There are fresh reports that rising demand for rhino horn — once again in China — has contributed to an upsurge in rhino killings around the world, with a particularly disturbing surge in Zimbabwe due in part to the breakdown of order there.

The answer is shaped by the shocking way in which the rhinos are killed and their horns removed, the widespread myths fueling the recent poaching escalation and the apparent inability of governments to tackle this massive problem with anything approaching competence.

Conservationists say that around 120 rhinos have been killed in the first two - and - a-half months of this year alone, putting 2012 on track to becoming the worst year of poaching on record.

In the last 18 months alone, more than 1,000 rhinos in Africa have been killed as a result of soaring demand for rhino horn products.

Throughout Africa, on average 50 rhinos are killed for their horns each month — and of course that doesn't include the losses of Indian, Sumatran and Javan rhinos, whose numbers are plummeting.

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.

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:

It looks like poachers in Mozambique might have officially killed off the last of its rhinos.

A number of elephants were killed in oil palm plantations in Sumatra, while South Africa reporting a new record in rhino killing.

The last Vietnamese rhinoceros, a subspecies of the Javan rhino, was killed by poachers in 2009, while the last western black rhinos, a subspecies of the black rhino, were killed off in Cameroon.

Then, just a week later, a survey found that more rhinos had been killed by poachers in South Africa in 10 months of 2011 than any previous single year.

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Last year a quarter of the rhinos in Zimbabwe were killed, and the last female white rhino in a South African reserve was killed earlier this year.

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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.

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A recent study has found that in Zimbabwe and South Africa, where an estimated 12 rhinos are killed each month, enforcement measures have either been reduced to the point of uselessness or outpaced by more advanced poaching methods.

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Located near the border with war - torn Sudan, the park has in recent years received visits from AK -47-toting men — enterprising members of the janjaweed militias — who kill the rhino for their valuable horns.

So far this year, 180 of the endangered species have been killed by poachers — leaving just 249 rhinos remaining.