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.
Not exact matches
This is what extinction looks like: The only
rhino of his kind left on the planet gets 24/7 armed
protection.
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.
Protection for elephants,
rhinos, sharks and trees was extended by states party to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
of Wild Fauna and Flora
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.
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».
Ten years on, in the wake
of significant press coverage I felt inspired to visit this fascinating country and endeavour to assist in any way I could in the
protection of the endangered black
rhino.
A unique conservation programme, dedicated to the conservation and
protection of the endangered black
rhino and African elephant.
The loss
of Esmond Martin, found dead in his Nairobi home over the weekend, is a tragic development not just for his family, friends and colleagues, but for the entire international community and all those who supported the
protection of Africa's elephants as well as its
rhinos.
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.
A bit
of extra
protection couldn't come any sooner for the Africa's endangered
rhino population.
Protection of employees on maternity leave The necessary protection given to an employee on maternity leave is so well known as to be burned into the collective HR consciousness, to the extent that a classic HR joke is to refer to such an employee as a «white rhino» (the most protected species on th
Protection of employees on maternity leave The necessary
protection given to an employee on maternity leave is so well known as to be burned into the collective HR consciousness, to the extent that a classic HR joke is to refer to such an employee as a «white rhino» (the most protected species on th
protection given to an employee on maternity leave is so well known as to be burned into the collective HR consciousness, to the extent that a classic HR joke is to refer to such an employee as a «white
rhino» (the most protected species on the planet).