Not exact matches
Tim has
made investments in a number
of unicorn and
rhino companies including: Tesla, SpaceX, Skype, Hotmail, Baidu, and Coinbase.
The harsh environment in which they operate, deprived
of natural resources or infrastructure to raid (such as in eastern DRC or the Niger delta),
makes ivory and
rhino horn trade that much more important.
Mark Loewen
of the Utah Museum
of Natural History in Salt Lake City, who
made the discoveries, describes Utahceratops as «a giant
rhino with a ridiculously supersized head».
In newspaper ads on Sunday, South African National Parks invited potential buyers to «
make a written offer to purchase white
rhinos in batches
of 20 or more».
About 300,000 years ago, herds
of rhino - sized creatures migrated across the floodplains
of east - central Australia, mimicking the treks that zebras and antelopes
make across Africa's Serengeti today.
Vladimir Pitulko,
of the Institute for the History
of Material Culture in St. Petersburg, discovered spear foreshafts
made of mammoth ivory and woolly
rhino horn, stone tools, and bones that display signs
of butchering.
Horn sold by
rhino farmers within South Africa will no doubt be smuggled out
of the country, which will
make it harder to police sales.
«Either we give up or we try to
make every fertile
rhino contribute to the future
of this species,» says John Payne, executive director
of the Borneo
Rhino Alliance (BORA) in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
Faced with this problem, zoo veterinarians felt it was time to
make use
of IVF and other reproductive technologies to help maintain a breeding population without having to transport
rhinos hither and yon.
At the end
of March, Hildebrandt and two
of his IZW colleagues flew back to Sabah on a uterine - rescue mission, accompanied by huge suitcases filled with veterinary paraphernalia: green scrubs, anaesthetics, antibiotics, drips, probes, a carbon - fibre catheter patented by Hildebrandt and his colleagues for the insemination
of rhinos, and a gun case containing a 2 - metre - long video endoscope tailor -
made to fit Puntung's reproductive tract.
As revealed by a few simple searches on the Etsy marketplace for terms such as «pre-ban», «real leopard», «real ivory» or «
rhino horn», there are currently several hundred products
made with parts
of endangered animals listed on the site — the vast majority
of them labeled as «vintage», «pre-ban»...
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As for why the corruption, all the obvious reasons: a) the country's
made up
of a zillion different historically hostile tribes arbitrarily thrown together as a country by the Brits; b) life is short, there are few official safety nets (e.g., unemployment insurance, pensions), so there are few moral qualms about taking care
of your own, no matter what; c) there's not yet any sort
of history
of democracy,
of regulation
of profiteering — this is a very young, very capitalist country; d) the outside world and all its wealth provides tremendous incentives for corruption — the amount and indiscriminate nature
of foreign aid, the fact that the amount
of money that would eventually be paid for, say, a
rhino horn dagger will trickle down to paying the poacher enough money to cover his kids» school fees for years; e) the fact that the west encourages the illicitly wealthy in the developing world to hide their loot in western institutions (e.g., Swiss banks).
Three
of the Big 5 graced us with their presence over the course
of the next 2 days — lion, elephant and
rhino (Welgevonden boasts one
of the largest
rhino populations
of any private game reserve in South Africa)-- but my favourite sightings are always
of the «less in demand» inhabitants
of the reserve — a herd
of Waterbuck
making a hasty retreat and thereby showing off their target - like markings on their rears, Warthog scrounging and digging for roots, Klipspringers hopping from rock to rock, being introduced to a huge scorpion.
Three
of the Big 5
make the reserve their home — white
rhino, buffalo and leopard — whilst you will also see hippo, giraffe, warthog, numerous buck and sable antelope.
Some
of them like the jumping monkey - frog - thing and the charging - metallic - looking -
rhino damage you by
making direct contact.
Except there is no scientific proof that a
rhino's horn —
made of keratin, just like human hair and fingernails — has any medicinal properties.
Even the stub horn
of a
rhino calf was worth more than a Zambian farmer could
make in 10 years
of scratching in the dirt.
Similarly a case could be
made for any
of the rescued species such as the North American Bisson, White & Black
Rhinos to suffer extinction even if we try to keep them from harm, again to due to lack
of genetic diversity, that is my speculation but for the cheetah it is a bit dire as they have very little diversity in their immune system, they are almost clones, and that is not good.
Authorities at the Hong Kong International Airport
made a record seizure
of illegal
rhino horns last week, estimated to be worth about $ 2.2 million, officials said.
South Africa reported record losses
of rhinos in its protected areas, while several high profile poaching events
made international headlines.
The IUCN warns that other
rhinos could follow saying Africa's northern white
rhino is «teetering on the brink
of extinction» while Asia's Javan
rhino is «
making its last stand» due to continued poaching and lack
of conservation.
And now, after 46 years away from their native habitat, decedents
of those rescued
rhinos have begun
making a historic journey back to the Serengeti recently, in one
of the «most ambitious» relocation efforts ever undertaken.According to a report from The Telegraph, five
rhinos were transported from a conservancy in South Africa to their native home in Tanzania's Serengeti National Reserve via a Hercules C - 130 aircraft.
Making matters worse,
rhinos are among the most endangered species — with many populations facing near extinction.Rhino Horns Are Believed to be Medicine According to The Times, the unusually high number
of rhinos being imported to China is the subject
of a report to be presented at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, meeting next weekend.
Demand for
rhino horn, ivory and other products
made from parts
of tigers, turtles and other endangered species is increasing in China and the Far East as living standards rise.
But the northern white
rhino project is fundamentally different from other projects like the Woolly Mammoth Revival, and that
makes the money worth it, says Joseph Bennett, an assistant professor at Carleton University, who's criticized the costs
of de-extinction and is not involved in the northern white
rhino project.