Sentences with phrase «rhino horn poachers»

Soon after my meeting with Hanks, in collaboration with Prince Bernhard he used the funds I had been told about to set up a unit of former SAS soldiers in apartheid South Africa to track down ivory and rhino horn poachers and traders in neighbouring countries.

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.

Missionaries treated Africans as cartons containing souls, just as poachers reduce elephants and rhinos to carcasses: carrying tusks and horns.

Although rhinoceroses are endangered, legalizing the trade in rhino horns may be the best way to protect them from poachers.

And this spring, poachers broke into a zoo in Paris and killed a rhino for its horn.

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

The rhinos, especially, are at risk from poachers who see vast fortunes in the animals» horns.

THREE days after World Wildlife Day, poachers broke into a French zoo not far from Paris, made their way to an enclosure that housed a white rhino called Vince, shot him three times in the head and used a chainsaw to detach his horn.

To make him less attractive to poachers (who kill rhino for their horns), Sudan's horn has been removed.

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).

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The ranger tells us that poachers use helicopters to enter national parks to kill rhinoes just for their horns.

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.

Every day, rhinoceros across Africa and Asia are getting caught in the crosshairs of poachers to supply a lucrative black market demand for rhino horn.

Constantly outgunned by poachers» high - tech helicopters, machine guns, night - vision binoculars, bullet - proof vests and insane arsenal in the illegal trade of «medicinal» rhino horns that are worth more than gold, one pissed - off game manager outside of Johannesburg, South Africa wants to do the unthinkable: inject poison into horns as a deadly warning to would - be poachers and the consumers who would buy them.According to South Africa's The Times, Ed Hern, owner of the Lion and Rhino Park outside of Johannesburg, says injecting poison into rhino's horns will protect them from poachers and kill the demand for rhino horn right at the source, which is prized as a medicinal ingredient in Asian medicine.

The brazen attack by Morgan and his crew also highlights the increasing clashes around the world between poachers, often backed by organized criminals, and wildlife rangers as demand for wildlife parts such as ivory, rhino horn, and tiger bones sky rocket.

Rhino populations are being hammered by poachers, steeping Africa in blood and pushing the species ever - closer to extinction to satisfy the demand for rhino horn in Vietnam and other countries — a demand largely based on the myth...

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.

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In addition to their thick, leathery hide and imposing stature, now a group of African rhinos have one more tool to help protect them against poachers — GPS locating devices embedded directly into their horns.

Conservationists say that the nation's remaining 15 rhinos were found dead last month, butchered by poachers and robbed of their horns.

Not only will the tracking devices help keep the rhinos alive, says Hustler, but it also could be used to track down any poachers who manage to hack off the chipped horns and elude the authorities.