Sentences with phrase «much of the rhino»

It is a stinging irony that by far the biggest donor to BORA is the Sime Darby Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Sime Darby Group, based in Kuala Lumpur, one of the world's biggest producers of palm oil, the crop that led to the destruction of much of the rhino's rainforest home.

Not exact matches

We saw proof of this later when we watched a rhino repeatedly charge an elephant until the elephant finally had enough and sent the rhino on its way much sadder for the encounter.

The Robins opened their season with a home loss to Wakefield Trinity but put in a much - improved display when they lost to champions Leeds Rhinos last Thursday night at Elland Road where they dominated most of the encounter only to lose in the last quarter.

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.

«They confirm that the scale of the illegal wildlife trade — including trade in plants — is much greater than we had previously thought, and that wildlife trafficking concerns many more species than the charismatic rhinos and elephants which tend to receive global attention.

In a frank essaypublished in 1995, he accused the conservation community of «helping a species go extinct» by placing too much emphasis on captive breeding of the Sumatran rhino at the expense of «the more difficult job of protection and management in the field».

Martin McDonagh's fiercely written, stabbingly pleasurable tragicomedy stars a magnificent Frances McDormand; watching it is like having your funny bone struck repeatedly, expertly and very much too hard by a karate super-black-belt capable of bringing a rhino to its knees with a single punch behind the ear.

The suitcase does however contain: a nifler (a platypusial creature with a fondness for snatching shiny objects); an erumpent (rhino - like when it comes to size and temperament and, inconveniently, in heat); several occamy (winged serpents with an aptitude for size - shifting); a demiguise (simian, and blessed with powers of invisibility and precognition); a thunderbird (pretty much what is sounds like, only larger); and a variety of other, shall we say, fantastic beasts.

This afternoon, head off on a game drive in search of elephants, lions, endangered black rhinos, and much more.

South Africa may be best known for elephants, rhinos and its impressive predators, but there is a much smaller world that is just as integral a part of our ecosystems.

«The rhino poaching situation in Africa is critical and, given the incredibly high cost of saving them, we wanted to focus our efforts on a difficult project that doesn't get nearly as much attention as it should.

Addo Elephant Park — a National Park the size of Belgium with elephants, lions, rhino, and so much more!

Stomp on enemies, grab banana bunches and ride rockets, rhinos and much more in classic 2D platforming gameplay, stuffed full of spectacular scenes and tricky traps.

The massive rhino relocation, which is set to cost around $ 7 million, offers hope for a species which has been ravaged by poaching — but the hope is tenuous as the practice continues throughout much of Africa.

Rhinos are much less studied than mice — but Jeanne Loring, director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine at the Scripps Research Institute, has already turned northern white rhino cell cultures into pluripotent stem cells.