Sentences with phrase «number of rhino»

The 2014 total is widely expected to exceed 2013, when a record number of rhinos were poached.

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

This clandestine trade so depleted the numbers of rhino that the Zimbabwean government had ordered its rangers and safari guides to shoot armed poachers on sight in the national parks.

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.

Not exact matches

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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.

The Sumatran rhino has disappeared altogether and the country has seen a steady decline in the number of Malayan tigers.

Up until about 2010, only a handful rhinos were poached in Africa but the number shot up when rumors circulated about the same time in Vietnam that a minister's relative was cured of cancer by rhino horn.

More than 1,000 rhinos were poached for their horns in South Africa in 2013, a record number and an increase of over 50 percent from the previous year, the country's department of environmental affairs said on Friday.

Drastic measures This desperate situation has led conservationists in Sabah to a desperate conclusion: that the only way to maintain the rhino population here is to capture as many as possible of the remaining animals — which may number as few as 30 — and subject them to assisted reproductive technology.

But the conversion of tropical forests to oil palm plantations has devastated a huge number of plant and animal species, including tigers, elephants, rhinos and orangutans.

Established to protect the previously endangered white rhino now numbering over 1000 in the park, HluhluweImfolozi is a triumph of conservation efforts.

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.

Here, all chips and pieces of rhino and elephant ivory recovered from poachers, poached animals, culling programmes, cases of natural death and, of late, elephants routinely slaughtered to feed the public at government functions are received, registered and issued with serial numbers.

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

The endangered animals were discovered on the grounds of Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, a wildlife reserve along Mozambique's southern border where rhinos numbered in the hundreds just a decade ago.

Dr. Richard Emslie, a Scientific Officer for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), explained that, «where there is political will, dedicated conservation programs and good law enforcement, rhino numbers have increased in both Africa and Asia.»

While there are thousand of southern white rhinos still roaming the plains of sub-Saharan Africa, decades of rampant poaching have drastically cut numbers of northern whites.