Sentences with phrase «rhino conservation»

2011 Goldman Prize winner Raoul du Toit is the Director of the Lowveld Rhino Trust in Zimbabwe and has worked to support rhino conservation since 1986.

Despite public awareness campaigns, worldwide petitions, increasing press coverage and pressure on African governments, and large amounts of money donated to rhino conservation groups, the slaughter accelerates.

Strong property rights and market incentives have provided a successful model for rhino conservation, despite the negative impact of command - and - control approaches that rely on regulations and bans that restrict wildlife use.

Every penny of your donation helps fund rhino conservation, fights terrorism (most poaching profits fund groups like Boko Haram), and earns you a chance at winning one of over 20 great prizes.

Yet it's home to two of the country's most prominent wildlife parks - the Hluhluwe - Imfolozi Park (famous for its rhino conservation projects) and the iSimangaliso Wetland Park (a World Heritage Site with a huge biodiversity and more animal species even than Kruger), some of the most beautiful and remote beaches, sea turtles and whales... The Elephant Coast is regarded as an eco-tourism hotspot particularly because of its access to Africa's largest est...

Learn about Sumatran rhino conservation efforts during a special meeting with the executive director of the Borneo Rhino Alliance.

And the Indonesian government's action plan for rhino conservation, spanning 2007 — 17, contains no mention of tissue banking.

«Biologists in Namibia were hopeful that a U.S. - based auction would produce a record amount for rhino conservation, and that's exactly what happened,» said club Executive Director Ben Carter.

Not exact matches

A record 1,305 rhinos were killed illegally in Africa last year, most of them in South Africa, according to conservation groups.

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.

«TRAFFIC believes Namibia has demonstrated a sound conservation policy for its rhinos over the years and does not oppose Namibia's legitimate execution of its hunting quota,» Milliken said in an email.

The Dallas Safari Club will auction a permit to hunt a black rhino in Namibia, possibly fetching up to $ 1 million with proceeds going to protect the endangered animals in a move seen by some animal rights groups as ethically dubious conservation.

Smart radio tags attached to rhinos allowed the drones to home in on each herd's current location, says Pierre du Preez, MET's chief conservation scientist.

Data necessary to improve decisions for conservation management of the rhinos was missing or fragmentary.

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».

Since Steppes began selling Kenya in 1989, we have worked on rhino projects with TUSK Trust, focused on elephant conservation with the Douglas - Hamiltons and supported numerous rural community projects.

Sadly ~ scientists of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) ~ have announced that wild black rhinos can no longer be found in West...

Sadly ~ scientists of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) ~ have announced that wild black rhinos can no longer be found in West Africa.

Unless these zoos vigorously oppose Swaziland's proposal to sell rhino horns, their conservation claims will forever ring hollow.»

She has worked with goats in Ghana, jaguars in Belize, dolphins in Mexico, rhinos in Indonesia, and plenty of starry - eyed students as an instructor for the university conservation medicine program.

She is a director for a non-profit called Global Conservation Force that helps many endangered species such as rhinos, elephants, giraffes and pangolins.

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Newly rebuilt, the concept of Mombo Camp is to maintain the Mombo traditions and history stretching back nearly 30 years, as well as to celebrate our Conservation Purpose — indeed, one of our greatest conservation successes: the reintroduction of black and white rhino into the wilds Conservation Purpose — indeed, one of our greatest conservation successes: the reintroduction of black and white rhino into the wilds conservation successes: the reintroduction of black and white rhino into the wilds of Botswana.

A unique conservation programme, dedicated to the conservation and protection of the endangered black rhino and African elephant.

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.

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.

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

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.

To save our big animals like elephants and rhinos, to birds in areas like Lake Natron, tourism is absolutely necessary and having warnings likes these is not helping conservation.

Day 3 Half - day game drive with a naturalist at Solio Ranch, founded in 1970 as a privately owned wildlife conservancy dedicated to conservation especially of the rhino.

On the other hand, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area yet another splendid destination with sights of the uncommon black rhino, the Big Five plus a varied of bird species all living on the floor of the stunning crater.

I thought more strongly about conservation more recently when the western black rhino became extinct.

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.

Without the safari hunting, conservancies would not survive against other land - use pressures, so safari hunting has a crucial indirect, positive impact on the conservation of rhinos and many other rare species such as cheetahs.»

Raoul du Toit won the Goldman Prize for his courageous work in coordinating conservation initiatives that have helped to develop and maintain the largest remaining black rhino populations in Zimbabwe.

The designation could increase the area of forest conserved within oil palm plantations provided it has high conservation significance, such as serving as habitat for endangered species like orangutans, Sumatran tigers, and rhinos.

Tie - ins with rural health (malaria, dengue, dysentery all major problems in Borneo) and biodiversity conservation (orangutan, Sumatran rhino, proboscis monkey)

2011 Prize recipient Raoul du Toit coordinated conservation initiatives that helped to develop and maintain the largest remaining black rhino populations in Zimbabwe.

He studied conservation biology and fell in love with the Sumatran rhino, the smallest — and the most critically endangered — member of the rhinoceros family.

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.

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.

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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 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 conservation programs and good law enforcement, rhino numbers have increased in both Africa and Asia.»