Sentences with phrase «of rhino horn»

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.

In a recent Safaritalk article, a retired practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine described the horn's allure this way: «The character of rhino horn is very cool and is used for curing the heat.

Animal studies done in the UK and South Africa found no pharmacological effects of rhino horn — or any other animal horns.

«Leopard - skin coats, ivory gewgaws and the Chinese belief in the medicinal properties of rhino horn.

fred There are many millions of people who «witness» to such things as ghosts, fairies, reincarnation, UFO abduction, bigfoot, the medicinal powers of rhino horn, magic crystals, horoscopes, lucky charms, lucky numbers, and dozens of other things.

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.

While it seems as though these appalling figures and the wide - spread discrediting of rhino horns as medicine seems to have done little to curb the slaughter, those working to save Thandi and Themba hope the animals» needlessly marred faces will help stir greater involvement towards the conservation of their species.

The only solution is cutting off the source — educating would - be buyers about the medicinal uselessness and ecological danger of rhino horns.

The Edifier Spinnaker E30 ($ 255, shown on red above) has one of the most exotic designs we've seen on desktop speakers, resembling a pair of rhino horns, available in striking red or black.

Not exact matches

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.

I love the way that her hair is blowing forward like a stubborn little «rhino horn» of her own and the way that her left hand pushes back like a tail.

A zebra - striped bus unloaded a group of chattering Germans, who proceeded to surround the three rhinos, petting their mud - caked hides, stroking the heavy frontal horn of the big male and posing for fake matador shots — windbreakers sweeping in clumsy verónicas as the camera shutters buzzed.

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

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.

At times during the 3000 - year history of TCM, rhino horn was used to treat infections and was believed to reduce fever.

Some governments are even experimenting with the controversial idea of allowing farmers to raise rhinos to harvest their horns (which can be painlessly trimmed and regrown like fingernails).

Legalising the trade in rhino horn from South Africa could match black market supply and maybe even double it, with the aim of driving poachers out of business

New uses fuel demand too; think of newly wealthy businessmen in Vietnam consuming rhino horn mixed with water or alcohol to show how rich they are.

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.

Paleontologist John Kappelman of the University of Texas at Austin is finding the answer in northern Ethiopia, where he recently excavated the remains of five new elephant relatives (including the tusks seen here), huge rodent like hyraxes, and a late Arsinoitherium, a seven - foot - tall rhino - shaped beast that sported a pair of enormous conical horns on its snout.

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.

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.

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.

Unlike rhino horn, says Stephen Nash of TRAFFIC, powdered saiga horn does seem to be extremely useful for treating fever and headaches.

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.

«It's certainly difficult to explain the presence of the horns, and that of a rhino skull, without invoking the agency of Neanderthals,» he said.

The remains of fires encircling the grave of a Neanderthal toddler contain animal horns and a rhino skull that seem to have been placed there in a funerary ritual

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.

• Elephants may never forget, and we now remember that rhino horn is mostly keratin protein and one rhino farmer has more than six tonnes of it (4 November, p 7).

The 100 rhinos were moved to unspecified neighboring states as part of efforts to stem the illicit slaughter of the animals for their horns

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).

There is a deep cultural heritage and history around wildlife products such as elephant ivory and rhino horn in some parts of the world.

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»...

It was a minor matter to get a friend of a friend, who was a stewardess, to use her free hours before her flight took off again from Beef Island to take a cab to the dive shop and pick up a small quantity of the ground herb concoction, which chemical analysis later revealed to be powdered rhino horn (one could well wonder how they got that in Tortola), mixed with something called dried Annie flower, to which was added a generous pinch — as Lowell suspected — of simple ginger.

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).

Survived more than 30 years of work in some of the world's most dangerous places, only to be stabbed in his bed NAIROBI, Kenya ---- Nairobi police homicide detectives appear to believe that renowned elephant ivory and rhino horn trafficking investigator Esmond Bradley Martin Jr., 75, was murdered on February 5, 2018 in connection with a -LSB-...]

Chitwan translates to «heart of the jungle», and is home to the one - horned rhino and the royal bengal tiger.

With news of the passing of Sudan, the world's last male northern white rhino, Lyn Hughes reveals the best places to see these magnificent horned beasts and help save them from extinction More

From the king of the jungle, the Bengal tiger, to the endangered greater one - horned rhino, the clouded leopard and many more, this lush forest is an absolute joy to explore.

Dominated by the mighty Brahmaputra River and home to one of India's best national parks, Kaziranga, where the one - horned rhinos, elephants and elusive tigers can be found.

The country has been a rare conservation success story in the past couple of years, and an estimated 534 greater one - horned rhinos remain in Nepal.

Watch as one - horned rhinos roam free, or walk alongside elephants in the conservation haven of Chitwan National Park.

Nepal's national parks host a wealth of flora and fauna (and the rare one - horned rhino) and their conservation success — particularly the Chitwan National park — are worth narrating.

This is a perfect way to see the one horned rhino and the famed Royal Bengal Tiger.The park is home to some of the most endangered animals on earth.

All countries you will visit have laws against the purchase and export of certain items, including antiquities, national cultural property and certain animal products, especially endangered species (ivory, rhino horn, tortoise shell, coral, feathers, etc.).

Chitwan is just 20 minutes by flight from Kathmandu or 5 hours by drive.Covering an area of 932 Km, Chitwan national park is the home for 450 species of birds, big population of one horned asian rhinos, deers, boars, bisons, buffalos, peacocks, leopards and bengal tigers.

One of the last refuges of the Bengal tiger, this national park is also home to a good population of one - horned Asiatic rhinos.

ARTIST STATEMENT «The piece is a play on simple vaudeville style adverts that toys with the idea of human interest in viewing the grotesque; in this case, a bloody boxer, black man with a west African rhino head, broken horn in mouth, bloody / bruised face + body, in a classic boxing pose.

And so he did, and — to my mind — he has established an invaluable hub for insights and discussion related to everything from ecotourism to the Asian demand for rhino horn, which — as you'll hear — has become something of a club drug in Vietnam.

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.