Sentences with phrase «rhino in»

If there's anyone on the planet who can relate to the hardships endured by Phila, an endangered black rhino in South Africa, it would be platinum - selling rap star 50 Cent — after all, they've both been shot nine times

One more symbol of the rising global demand for rhino horn and its devastating effect on rhinoceroses in both Africa and Asia: The Guardian reports that the female white rhino in South Africa's Krugersdorp nature

It seems that in addition to impeccable scientific credentials, climate researchers must now also possess the hide of a rhino in order to endure public attacks like this, from the likes of Borelli.

It could be also argued that global warming could have caused the decline of the black rhino in the late 20th century, as warmer temperatures might have affected the growth patterns of African grasslands (see, even I can write this sort of stuff.)

The poachers would cross Lake Kariba by night in hollowed - out log canoes to pursue the rhino in the national park.

It was recently proclaimed as a nature reserve and received international recognition for the introduction of 28 black rhino in 2005.

Pay a visit to Australia's Great Barrier Reef or book an African safari to watch the elusive white rhino in the wild while you still can.

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 recent arrival of black rhino in the country means that Rwanda is now offering one of the most comprehensive safari experiences anywhere on the African continent.

This project, and the passion exuded by the owners (Watch: There's a rhino in my bed) really appealed to me, and it did not disappoint!

It's hard to imagine anyone battling a charging rhino from the seat of the 2006 Range Rover Sport, but with 390 horsepower you can, at least, leave the rhino in the dust.

In the News: At an auction in Texas, someone spent $ 350,000 to hunt and kill a black rhino in the African country of Namibia.Black rhino are very...

In the News: At an auction in Texas, someone spent $ 350,000 to hunt and kill a black rhino in the African country of Namibia.Black rhino are very endangered.

In it are fibroblasts from Tam and Gelogob, a blind and elderly female rhino in captivity at the Tabin Wildlife Reserve.

The case of the recently captured female rhino in Kalimantan, Borneo shows the importance of immediate action.

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.

EARLIER this year, a hunter based in Texas paid $ 350,000 for the dubious privilege of being allowed to kill a male black rhino in Namibia.

The last Javan rhino in Vietnam was killed in 2010.

A helicopter carrying a team of environmental crime scene investigators casts a shadow beside the decomposing body of a poached rhino in South Africa's Kruger National Park.

Poachers have shot dead three critically endangered black rhinos in a specially - protected sanctuary in northern Kenya, the wildlife service said Thursday.

I've always been brought up to loudly support any side I support, whether it be Arsenal or the Leeds Rhinos in rugby league (I had to get that in somewhere...) whether they win or lose.

There were elephants and rhinos in the deep forest.

In newspaper ads on Sunday, South African National Parks invited potential buyers to «make a written offer to purchase white rhinos in batches of 20 or more».

At the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, animal care staff switched to a low phytoestrogen diet for southern white rhinos in their care in 2014.

The study reviews historical data on the reproductive success of southern white rhinos in zoos in North America.

A consortium of international scientists examined the historical development of the Sumatran rhinos in Borneo.

Rare breed Past efforts to breed Sumatran rhinos in captivity have been spectacularly unsuccessful.

He gives the example of white and black rhinos in Africa, which were recently rescued from the brink of extinction.

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.

«Shelter Me: Community Matters» (episode 7) is hosted by Dr. Jane Goodall and features an organization that trains shelter dogs to help protect endangered elephants and rhinos in Africa.

She is only here part - time because she also has a job at The San Diego Zoo, where she is a zoo keeper and gets to work with Nola, 1 of only 5 Northern White Rhinos in the world.

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.

Search for the Big Five in Kruger and Hwange national parks, savour a local meal with a family, walk with rhinos in Matobo National Park.

From tracking big cats in the Himalaya mountains to scouring for rhinos in the marshes of Assam — we seek out India's wildlife More

This relatively small amount of money will go directly towards saving 100 rhinos in Africa!

The recent arrival of black rhinos in the country means that Rwanda is now offering one of the best safari experiences in Africa.

Like tigers and rhinos in Far Cry, they lend unpredictability to the landscape, which wants to feel organic.

In the Snippets section of the same Scribes edition, when asked about the «game for Xbox» that David Wise said he was working on back in the Music Edition of the Tepid Seat, Loveday once again responded that «There were monkeys and rhinos in it».

Still, wildlife biologists say the rhinos in the park face threats from poaching — mainly due to demand in China for the purported medicinal properties of the horns — as well as from a nearby volcano.

«There are no Javan rhinos in captivity — if we lose the population in the wild, we've lost them all,» Eric Dinerstein, chief scientist at the wildlife group, said in a news release.

After I posted on the seizure of tons of poached Asian pangolins bound for Chinese meat and medicine markets, Dale R. McIntyre, a frequent commenter from Bartlesville, Okla., submitted a vivid sketch of an encounter with a white rhinoceros and, shortly afterward, a posse of poachers gunning for the last black rhinos in the same African park.

For more background on this illegal trade, read this piece be Jeffrey Gettleman: «Coveting Horns, Ruthless Smugglers» Rings Put Rhinos in the Cross Hairs.»

In the last 18 months alone, more than 1,000 rhinos in Africa have been killed as a result of soaring demand for rhino horn products.

South Africa reported record losses of rhinos in its protected areas, while several high profile poaching events made international headlines.

Last year a quarter of the rhinos in Zimbabwe were killed, and the last female white rhino in a South African reserve was killed earlier this year.

Sudan had been living there since the 1970s, as other northern white rhinos in Africa were being exterminated by civil wars and poaching.

The last northern white rhinos in the wild were observed more than a decade ago in Congo's Garamba National Park, whose animals have often been targeted by armed groups amid conflict in the region.

But research on the project has stopped: «There's no clear economic incentive to making northern white rhinos in the laboratory,» O'Connor tells us.

There are roughly 20,000 southern white rhinos in Africa after efforts to save them from extinction began in the 1950s.

Located in Laikipia, Ol Pejeta is East Africa's largest black rhino sanctuary and home to the last three northern white rhinos in the world.