Sentences with phrase «rhino poachers»

A South African court has sentenced a rhino poacher to 77 years in jail, the heaviest penalty imposed by authorities desperate to halt a wave of poaching that is threatening the population of the endangered animals.

In one example, rhino poacher Simon Ngomane was sentenced to 28 years in prison last year, following a 2011 shootout with rangers in South Africa's Kruger National Park.

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.

The problem has gotten so bad that to stop poachers some conservationists are suggesting huge projects such as implanting GPS trackers to follow the rhinos.

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

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

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

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

Riding in an open safari vehicle across a 100 - acre savannah, we get semi-close encounters with black rhinos, elephants, and giraffes that have plenty of room to roam (although we could do without the cheesy narration about heading off imaginary 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

Poachers in the 20th century wiped out most of this white rhino subspecies (Ceratotherium simum ssp.

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.

Mandla Chauke was convicted of shooting three rhinos, as well as murder and possession of illegal firearms, after he and two other poachers cut through wire fencing and infiltrated the flagship Kruger National Park in 2011, officials said.

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

New infantry - style tactics of concealment and ambush by armed park rangers are credited with turning the tide in the war against poachers of the endangered rhino on one front, in South Africa's Madikwe Game Reserve.

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.

Although the Bornean rhino population is on the brink, it could still rebound on its own, Melnick says, but only if it's protected from its number - one enemy: poachers.

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.

A group called Rhinos Without Borders (part of the Great Plains Foundation) is focused on saving rhinos by translocating them to Botswana, where they will be safe from the evil clutches of poaRhinos Without Borders (part of the Great Plains Foundation) is focused on saving rhinos by translocating them to Botswana, where they will be safe from the evil clutches of poarhinos by translocating them to Botswana, where they will be safe from the evil clutches of poachers.

Protected from poachers by guards who accompany him at all times as he roams the grounds of the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Sudan represents the last hope of his species but he has shown no interest in mating with the two female rhinos who also live at the Conservancy.

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.

This clandestine trade so depleted the numbers of rhino that the Zimbabwean government had ordered its rangers and safari guides to shoot armed poachers on sight in the national parks.

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

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.

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.

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Here are some desperately depressing numbers to consider: 40,000 elephants and over 1,200 rhinos were killed by poachers in 2014 — a rate that will lead both animals to extinction within 10 years if things don't change.

Here, all chips and pieces of rhino and elephant ivory recovered from poachers, poached animals, culling programmes, cases of natural death and, of late, elephants routinely slaughtered to feed the public at government functions are received, registered and issued with serial numbers.

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.

The report underscores the importance of the work being done by Goldman Prize winners like Silas Siakor (2006), who is fighting for stricter logging regulations in Liberia and around the world; Fatima Jibrell (2002), who is working to provide sustainable economic alternatives to the illicit charcoal trade in Somalia; and Raoul du Toit (2011), who has dedicated his life to protecting Southern Africa's last remaining rhino populations from poachers.

It looks like poachers in Mozambique might have officially killed off the last of its rhinos.

The last Vietnamese rhinoceros, a subspecies of the Javan rhino, was killed by poachers in 2009, while the last western black rhinos, a subspecies of the black rhino, were killed off in Cameroon.

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...

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

He became an expert researcher and tracker, leading rhino protection teams on field expeditions to track down poachers in the Leuser Ecosystem.

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.

Then, just a week later, a survey found that more rhinos had been killed by poachers in South Africa in 10 months of 2011 than any previous single year.

Ming notes on his blog that «last year alone, Ol Pejeta lost five of their 88 rhinos to poachers, which has been their greatest loss in twenty years.»

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Reintroducing the rhinos and ensuring their safety from poachers will automatically protect other species sharing the same habitat.

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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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