Sentences with phrase «of the rhino population»

The decline of the rhino population in Sabah has been documented in detail for the first time in this new study.

The researchers used mathematical models to reconstruct the decline of the rhino population in the Tabin Wildlife Reserve (TWR) in the Malayan state Sabah of Borneo.

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Kalahari Pepper Co. is an official corporate sponsor of Save the Rhino International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to growing the rhino population through community - based initiatives.

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.

Tom Milliken, leader of the elephant and rhino program for the international wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC, said Namibia had 1,750 black rhino as of the end of 2012 and the population has been steadily increasing under good management and protection.

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.

In the case of the Sumatran rhino, however, some conservationists worry that without a long - term strategy for reversing the environmental pressures that are killing them off, captive breeding alone can never restore the wild population.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You'll also find the largest free - roaming population of black rhino and desert elephant, as well as 25 % of the world's cheetah in Namibia.

Aside from rhino the reserve has over 340 species of bird, a large and healthy elephant population, cheetah, hippo, hyena, jackal, giraffe and wild dog.

It's founding purpose was to save a population of southern white rhinos from extinction.

Africa's oldest natural park, this is a country hewn with hills and wide, deep valleys — home to the largest population of white rhino in the world.

The home of Operation Rhino, Hluhluwe Imfolozi is renowned for its black and white rhino populations.

Buoyed by the antipoaching efforts of the Botswana government and local conservation groups, the philanthropic arm of the (impeccably renovated) Sanctuary Chief's Camp has helped reintroduce populations of both black and white rhinos to the Okavango Delta.

Lake Nakuru National Park is a fenced area, which provides a sanctuary to one of the largest populations of rhinos in Kenya, as well as Rothschild's giraffes, leopards and lions.

Notably, it also boasts the world's largest population of white rhino.

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.

With one of the richest game populations in the country, the chances of seeing the Big Five of lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant and rhino, are excellent.

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

Each creature's fleshy analogue has found itself and its comrades on some watch list for nigh extinction: the seas have run dangerously low of our gilled friends; nearly all the world's rhinos have been shot for trophies by some member of the Trump family or their kind; and orca and shark populations have declined precipitously.

The total population of black rhinos plunged to less than 2,500 in 1993 from 70,000 or so in 1970, in a slaughter largely driven by the market for rhino horn and related products in Asia.

The report underscores the importance of the work being done by Goldman Prize winners like Silas Siakor (2006), who is fighting for stricter logging regulations in Liberia and around the world; Fatima Jibrell (2002), who is working to provide sustainable economic alternatives to the illicit charcoal trade in Somalia; and Raoul du Toit (2011), who has dedicated his life to protecting Southern Africa's last remaining rhino populations from poachers.

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.

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.

In some places it has gotten so bad that a decade's worth of successful conservation efforts are being reversed: WWF says that in the period of 2000 - 2005 the African average for rhinos killed by poachers was about three per month, out of a total population of approximately 18,000.

A bit of extra protection couldn't come any sooner for the Africa's endangered rhino population.

Rhinos Nearing Extinction After 50 Years of Poaching Rhino poaching, often practiced to remove the animal's horn, has helped cause an extraordinary decline in populations throughout Africa and Asia — for example, there is thought to be about 130 Javan rhinos and only 300 Sumatran rhinos left in theRhinos Nearing Extinction After 50 Years of Poaching Rhino poaching, often practiced to remove the animal's horn, has helped cause an extraordinary decline in populations throughout Africa and Asia — for example, there is thought to be about 130 Javan rhinos and only 300 Sumatran rhinos left in therhinos and only 300 Sumatran rhinos left in therhinos left in the wild.

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.

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.

Years of widespread poaching and civil war in their home range have devastated northern white rhino populations, and they are now considered to be extinct in the wild.