Sentences with phrase «of a rhino poached»

The skull of a rhino poached in Sumatra in 2005, on display at the rhino protection unit headquarters just outside Way Kambas National Park, is a testament to the brutality of poaching.

We would like to know what China is doing with all the live rhinos it is importing from South Africa but the increased reports of rhino poaching, particularly in South Africa and Zimbabwe, are very worrying too.

The report shows that the situation is most dire in Zimbabwe, where rhino populations are decreasing rapidly and only three percent of rhino poaching cases end in conviction.

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Then came a story out of Zimbabwe about how the false belief in the cancer - curing properties of rhino horns has led rhino poaching to a record high.

Yet one area of this booming illicit trade receives more attention than most: poaching for ivory and rhino horn.

A helicopter carrying a team of environmental crime scene investigators casts a shadow beside the decomposing body of a poached rhino in South Africa's Kruger National Park.

Each found beside the body of their poached, dehorned mothers, orphaned rhinos Gertjie and Matimba were taken in at South Africa's Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre (HESC).

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.

They're doing it by comparing the DNA profiles of items confiscated from suspects — like a horn or a smear of blood — to a database that contains DNA profiles for thousands of rhino carcasses identified as the victims of poaching.

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

A South African court has sentenced a rhino poacher to 77 years in jail, the heaviest penalty imposed by authorities desperate to halt a wave of poaching that is threatening the population of the endangered animals.

South Africa's Kruger National Park is inviting bids for rhinos under a plan to move 500 of the animals to safety to counter a wave of poaching for their horns, highly prized in some Asian countries as a sign of wealth.

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.

The WWF said it will work with the government of Nepal and local communities in a 9,000 square mile (93,310 square km) region that includes protected areas for tigers, rhinos and elephants in order to stop poaching, increase breeding and to monitor the tiger population.

This perilous situation is a result of a devastating combination of habitat loss (mainly to create lucrative oil - palm plantations) and poaching (to feed the black market for rhino horn).

The decline in the male white rhino population over time is attributed to the poaching crisis of the 1970s and 1980s that took place in various African countries.

An anesthetized rhino is left to wake up after a dehorning procedure administered to decrease the risk of poaching.

They are working to end the Canadian seal slaughter and poaching of rhinos and elephants.

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Now, through their Great Plains Conservation and Great Plains Foundation arms, the Jouberts have launched Rhinos Without Borders, an attempt to save endangered Rhinos by translocating 100 of them from South Africa to Botswana in order to protect them from the tragic rise in poaching.

«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.

Still, wildlife biologists say the rhinos in the park face threats from poaching — mainly due to demand in China for the purported medicinal properties of the horns — as well as from a nearby volcano.

In general, poaching pressure on Africa's rhinos has surged of late and particularly this year.

The last extensive survey of possible rhino range in the last known range state, Cameroon in 2006, failed to find any rhino or signs of rhino (dung, spoor or signs of feeding) but did find evidence of widespread wildlife poaching and local rhino monitors faking rhino spoor in the absence of any surviving rhino.

A small but notable victory in the fight against rhino poaching and the illegal trade in rhino horn: WWF reports that Chumlong Lemtongthai, a Thai national, has been given a sentence of 40 years in jail for trafficking rhino horns from South Africa.

After I posted on the seizure of tons of poached Asian pangolins bound for Chinese meat and medicine markets, Dale R. McIntyre, a frequent commenter from Bartlesville, Okla., submitted a vivid sketch of an encounter with a white rhinoceros and, shortly afterward, a posse of poachers gunning for the last black rhinos in the same African park.

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 six months of this year alone, 124 South African rhinos have been poached, up from 122 for all of 2009.

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.

Vietnam and China are currently the largest importers of poached rhino horn from South Africa, but both countries have increased enforcement against rhino horn trade in recent years.

The fact that all of these rhinos were poached on reserves specially created for their protection highlights the extreme difficulties faced in combating the ivory trade.

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

He works around the large Lowveld reserves to monitor rhinos, address injuries, reinforce efforts to tackle poaching, and build community awareness of the need to protect rhinos.

Poaching and trafficking of iconic species such as elephants and rhinos are recognized to be at crisis levels, devastating populations worldwide.

While South Africa is home to the world's largest population of rhinos, the effects of opening this trade is already being felt by rhino populations in Kenya and India, as demand increases and stimulates poaching.

South Africa reported record losses of rhinos in its protected areas, while several high profile poaching events made international headlines.

Rhino poaching has become a growing problem for the reserve with the soaring price of rhino horn and 190 - man security team has been unable to effectively patrol the sprawling area with increasingly aggressive poachers.

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.

«Thus far in 2010 alone, more than 200 rhinos were poached within South Africa, with a lot of those poached outside national parks, so that's a more than 2,000 percent increase in just three years» time.»

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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.

Since IAPF took over security operations in Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, not one rhino has been poached and the population of critically endangered black rhino has increased by 133 % since 2010.

2/3 of the world's rhinos live in South Africa, the poaching epicenter of the world.

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The two species of Asian rhino and one species of Indian rhino are also poached, but not to as great an extent as African rhinos.

Indian officials suspect them of supporting the poaching of tigers, rhinos, elephants and other vanishing species in India's Kaziranga National Park to support terrorist activities.