Sentences with phrase «rhino poaching»

From 2007 to 2014 rhino poaching in South Africa alone increased by almost 12.000 %.

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The report shows that the situation is most dire in Zimbabwe, where rhino populations are decreasing rapidly and only three percent of rhino poaching cases end in conviction.

A shocking case of this comes from South - Africa, where a senior ranger for South Africa National Parks who was an outspoken activist against poaching, including during media interviews where he advised young people to stay away from poaching and criminal gangs, is charged with rhino poaching.

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We would like to know what China is doing with all the live rhinos it is importing from South Africa but the increased reports of rhino poaching, particularly in South Africa and Zimbabwe, are very worrying too.

Now, Ming has focused from ocean to land, and has traveled to Kenya with WildAid to bring awareness to elephant and rhino poaching and the damage demand for their horns and tusks in Traditional Chinese Medicine have caused to the species.

This is the worst rhino poaching we have seen in many years and it is critical for governments to stand up and take action to stop this deadly threat to rhinos worldwide.

If you're starting to hear more news about elephant and rhino poaching or wildlife trafficking, in general, it's no surprise.

His first Mongabay piece «Amid rhino poaching frenzy, dark days for South African society» was nominated for a Queensland Clarion Award.

«The previously poorly regulated trophy hunting of rhinos fed horns into illegal supply chains and helped stimulate the current upsurge in rhino poaching.

High - tech poaching syndicates to blame South Africa's rhino population is being beseiged by well - organized and well - armed rhino poaching syndicates that are likely colluding with industry insiders.

How far would you go to stop rhino poaching?

According to Protect's press release, rhino poaching has increased 9,300 percent since 2007 in South Africa alone, but the problem is widespread on the continent, as Dr Paul O'Donoghue, chief scientific advisor for Protect, explains:

A small but notable victory in the fight against rhino poaching and the illegal trade in rhino horn: WWF reports that Chumlong Lemtongthai, a Thai national, has been given a sentence of 40 years in jail for trafficking rhino horns from South Africa.

In fact, there was a 5000 % increase in rhino poaching in South Africa between 2007 and 2012.

[8:03 a.m. Updated Adam Welz has a must - read report on the rhino poaching surge on the Yale Environment 360 Web site.]

«The rhino poaching situation in Africa is critical and, given the incredibly high cost of saving them, we wanted to focus our efforts on a difficult project that doesn't get nearly as much attention as it should.

Tracking skills and tools are in demand to stop elephant and rhino poaching, which, regrettably, have reached crisis proportions.

Amid a decade - long global rhino poaching epidemic, many conservationists wonder how long the animal will survive in the wild.

For example, just in South Africa, rhino poaching incidents skyrocketed over 9,000 percent, from 13 in 2007 to 1,215 in 2014.

Then came a story out of Zimbabwe about how the false belief in the cancer - curing properties of rhino horns has led rhino poaching to a record high.

The skull of a rhino poached in Sumatra in 2005, on display at the rhino protection unit headquarters just outside Way Kambas National Park, is a testament to the brutality of poaching.

And the Rhino situation is particularly critical, with one rhino poached every 7 hours in South Africa.

Not exact matches

«High demand for rhino horn means poaching can not be defeated with force on force,» Jooste noted after his appointment, «The only thing that can make a difference is taking on the crime networks.

Yet one area of this booming illicit trade receives more attention than most: poaching for ivory and rhino horn.

Such evidence can help solve individual cases when poached horn is seized, even months or years later, as well as piece together the complex criminal networks responsible for poaching rhinos and transporting their horns to Asia.

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.

Each found beside the body of their poached, dehorned mothers, orphaned rhinos Gertjie and Matimba were taken in at South Africa's Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre (HESC).

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 result is that South Africa, where rhino are meant to be protected, lost 230 animals to poaching in seven months last year, and there are now fewer than 3500 wild tigers left worldwide.

In northern Kenya, a privately owned rhino reserve is guiding communities that are rewilding former grazing lands at the same time as it fosters lucrative tourism facilities in a region once devastated by poaching.

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.

They're doing it by comparing the DNA profiles of items confiscated from suspects — like a horn or a smear of blood — to a database that contains DNA profiles for thousands of rhino carcasses identified as the victims of poaching.

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.

The 2014 total is widely expected to exceed 2013, when a record number of rhinos were poached.

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.

South Africa's Kruger National Park is inviting bids for rhinos under a plan to move 500 of the animals to safety to counter a wave of poaching for their horns, highly prized in some Asian countries as a sign of wealth.

Up until about 2010, only a handful rhinos were poached in Africa but the number shot up when rumors circulated about the same time in Vietnam that a minister's relative was cured of cancer by rhino horn.

More than 1,000 rhinos were poached for their horns in South Africa in 2013, a record number and an increase of over 50 percent from the previous year, the country's department of environmental affairs said on Friday.

The WWF said it will work with the government of Nepal and local communities in a 9,000 square mile (93,310 square km) region that includes protected areas for tigers, rhinos and elephants in order to stop poaching, increase breeding and to monitor the tiger population.

This perilous situation is a result of a devastating combination of habitat loss (mainly to create lucrative oil - palm plantations) and poaching (to feed the black market for rhino horn).

At best, rhino mothers take several years between pregnancies — meaning that the birth rate in the wild is unlikely to keep up with poaching and natural deaths.

Poaching has surged in the last few years across sub-Saharan Africa, where gangs kill elephants and rhinos to feed Asian demand for ivory and horns for use in traditional medicines.

The decline in the male white rhino population over time is attributed to the poaching crisis of the 1970s and 1980s that took place in various African countries.

One controversial way to reduce poaching may be rhino ranches, where the horns are harvested for sale.

A white rhino cow (left) grazes with a bull that has become her companion after a poaching attack in KwaZulu - Natal Province, South Africa.

An anesthetized rhino is left to wake up after a dehorning procedure administered to decrease the risk of poaching.

TRAFFIC's global elephant and rhino programme leader describes the current rhino and elephant poaching crisis, and the illegal trade in their horn and ivory that is driving this.

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