Sentences with phrase «rhino populations»

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.

Conservationists have taken some innovative measures to keep the northern white rhino population alive.

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.

Conservationists have taken some innovative measures to keep the northern white rhino population alive (Credit: Ol Pejeta Conservancy)

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

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.

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

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

The absence of cervical ribs in the modern sample is by no means evidence that rhino populations today are healthy.

Other triage opponents say numbers can be misleading: In the late 19th century, Africa's southern white rhino population appeared headed for extinction, with just 20 or so remaining, but conservation efforts have brought the species to more than 17,000 today.

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.

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.

Nonetheless, poaching of rhinos continues to occur at an alarming rate throughout South Africa where the world's rhino population primarily exists.

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

The black rhino, brought to the brink of extinction by poaching, has been listed as critically endangered since 2001.5 Namibia has one of the largest remaining populations of black rhinos, and roughly three - quarters of the national rhino population can be found in Etosha — where successful conservation policies have virtually eliminated poaching.6

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.

Meanwhile the well - protected Java rhino population is believed to be holding steady at around 38 individuals on the island of Java and Nepal reported that not a single rhino was killed by poachers within its borders in 2011.

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.

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

A bit of extra protection couldn't come any sooner for the Africa's endangered rhino population.

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

Two summers ago, Max volunteered at Pro Vet Wildlife Services in Hoedspruit, South Africa, where he helped provide medical care for the world's largest remaining rhino population.

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

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.

«Our large rhino populations, while not hunted themselves [hunting of rhinos is not allowed in Zimbabwe], depend on safari hunting * to maintain the economic viability of the large conservancies in which they are protected.

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.

Kalahari Pepper Co. is an official corporate sponsor of Save the Rhino International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to growing the rhino population through community - based initiatives.

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

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.

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.

The home of Operation Rhino, Hluhluwe Imfolozi is renowned for its black and white rhino populations.

Poaching for rhino horn, which is in high demand for medicinal and ornamental purposes, had also devastated the rhino population.

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.

Given that Kenya's remaining rhino population is estimated at around 500-1000 individuals, this constitutes an immediate and mortal threat to the survival of the species in the world.

This burned our rhino populations in Zimbabwe.

If poaching continues at current rates, rhino populations will become unsustainable and even more species will be lost to extinction.»

The assessment, which was conducted in conjunction with the IUCN, found that while overall, black and white rhino populations are on the rise, some key subspecies are particularly vulnerable to poaching.

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