Sentences with phrase «rhino population in»

The Sumatran rhino population in the Leuser Ecosystem has also inched up in the past decade.

This big - five game park is not only the oldest proclaimed nature reserve in Africa, it is also a sanctuary for threatened white rhinos; said to have the largest white rhino population in the world.

The researchers used mathematical models to reconstruct the decline of the rhino population in the Tabin Wildlife Reserve (TWR) in the Malayan state Sabah of Borneo.

The decline of the rhino population in Sabah has been documented in detail for the first time in this new study.

Raoul du Toit won the Goldman Prize for his courageous work in coordinating conservation initiatives that have helped to develop and maintain the largest remaining black rhino populations in Zimbabwe.

A retired conservator based in Zululand, John Forrest, told Oxpeckers the drought could have a much more devastating effect on rhino populations in the long term than poaching.

2011 Prize recipient Raoul du Toit coordinated conservation initiatives that helped to develop and maintain the largest remaining black rhino populations in Zimbabwe.

While South Africa is home to the world's largest population of rhinos, the effects of opening this trade is already being felt by rhino populations in Kenya and India, as demand increases and stimulates poaching.

Not exact matches

Sought after for their horns, white rhinos saw their population fall to 100 animals in South Africa by 1910, and only 2,410 black rhinos remained there in 1995.

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.

«We are not recommending placing rhino herds in Arizona or polar bears in Antarctica,» the group writes, as, for example, the polar bear would then devastate Antarctic penguin and seal populations that have never encountered such a predator.

Our work now shows that there was indeed a problem in the woolly rhino population.»

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.

In the case of the Sumatran rhino, however, some conservationists worry that without a long - term strategy for reversing the environmental pressures that are killing them off, captive breeding alone can never restore the wild population.

Drastic measures This desperate situation has led conservationists in Sabah to a desperate conclusion: that the only way to maintain the rhino population here is to capture as many as possible of the remaining animals — which may number as few as 30 — and subject them to assisted reproductive technology.

Since the mid-19th century, the population has plummeted from an estimated 1 million to about 300, including 50 to 100 Bornean rhinos that are thought to remain in the wild.

Mitochondrial DNA in these rhinos has evolved rapidly enough to reveal mutations that have accumulated since the Bornean population was sundered by a sea - level rise several thousand years ago from rhinos to the east on Sumatra and the Malaysian peninsula.

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.

The critically endangered black rhino had no real predators until men armed with guns happened along, reducing its population from an estimated 100,000 to below 2,500 in a remarkably short time.

Three of the Big 5 graced us with their presence over the course of the next 2 days — lion, elephant and rhino (Welgevonden boasts one of the largest rhino populations of any private game reserve in South Africa)-- but my favourite sightings are always of the «less in demand» inhabitants of the reserve — a herd of Waterbuck making a hasty retreat and thereby showing off their target - like markings on their rears, Warthog scrounging and digging for roots, Klipspringers hopping from rock to rock, being introduced to a huge scorpion.

You'll also find the largest free - roaming population of black rhino and desert elephant, as well as 25 % of the world's cheetah in Namibia.

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.

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.

With one of the richest game populations in the country, the chances of seeing the Big Five of lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant and rhino, are excellent.

The total population of black rhinos plunged to less than 2,500 in 1993 from 70,000 or so in 1970, in a slaughter largely driven by the market for rhino horn and related products in Asia.

«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.

The devices are currently being tested in a pilot program in South Africa, which has the largest rhino populations worldwide.

In Kenya the problem as particularly acute among the elephant and rhino populations who are prized for their ivory tusks and horns.

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.

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...

Since IAPF took over security operations in Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, not one rhino has been poached and the population of critically endangered black rhino has increased by 133 % since 2010.

In India and Nepal, where rhino populations are even lower, numbering about 2,400 individuals, poaching is no better.

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 18,00In 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 18,00in 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.

Only one female is left in the Michigan gray wolf population, conservationists want to use social media to save endangered rhinos, the mullet turns out to be green and more.

Rhinos Nearing Extinction After 50 Years of Poaching Rhino poaching, often practiced to remove the animal's horn, has helped cause an extraordinary decline in populations throughout Africa and Asia — for example, there is thought to be about 130 Javan rhinos and only 300 Sumatran rhinos left in theRhinos Nearing Extinction After 50 Years of Poaching Rhino poaching, often practiced to remove the animal's horn, has helped cause an extraordinary decline in populations throughout Africa and Asia — for example, there is thought to be about 130 Javan rhinos and only 300 Sumatran rhinos left in therhinos and only 300 Sumatran rhinos left in therhinos left in the wild.

Making matters worse, rhinos are among the most endangered species — with many populations facing near extinction.Rhino Horns Are Believed to be Medicine According to The Times, the unusually high number of rhinos being imported to China is the subject of a report to be presented at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, meeting next weekend.

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.

Researchers have found that in many once - critical areas, rhino populations have started to slowly increase.

Years of widespread poaching and civil war in their home range have devastated northern white rhino populations, and they are now considered to be extinct in the wild.