Sentences with phrase «rhino continue»

The cruel act of killing rhinos continues in Africa as Reuters reports that a record number of rhinos were killed in 2014.

Yale Environment 360: African countries and private game reserves are engaging in an increasingly sophisticated arms race against poachers, yet the slaughter of elephants and rhinos continues

Black rhinos continue to live on, albeit critically endangered, in the eastern and southern parts of Africa.

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South African poachers continue to use sophisticated methods to dehorn — and kill — rhinos while rangers are severely hampered in combatting the practice

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.

The increased supply from legal trade would likely bring prices down, reducing the incentive for poachers to continue slaughtering rhinos.

Biggs believes the trade would protect rhinos — a portion of profits could be funneled into continuing to police poachers — and bring jobs to the surrounding areas.

A 2012 report by researchers there predict that both rhino species will become extinct in the wild in just two decades if poaching continues to accelerate.

Independent Contemporary art Project, opens new exhibition Continuing the series urbanities, which reaches its third edition, Kunsthalle St. Paul invites the artist Otavio Cury (* 1971 in São Paulo), to present his first solo exhibition, «Death of a rhino».

But since 1993 trade in rhino horn, (as well as tiger parts) was banned by the Chinese government with the aim of stopping the use of endangered wildlife derivatives in TCM: but advocates cling to historical evidence, knowing their ancestors used it, their parents, grandparents: the reason why it continues to be used today by many Chinese families.

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.

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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.

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«You hate to sound alarmist, you hate to even consider that it could happen,» she explained, «but if the poaching continues at the current rate we could eventually see rhino go extinct.

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