Sentences with phrase «rhinoceros poaching»

Rhinoceros poaching has been getting worse, spiking to reach a 15 - year high.

Jacobsohn and the organization her and Owen - Smith founded, the IRDNC, are currently working on a community - led conservation program which provide training and jobs for local rangers and game guards whose goal is to stop rhinoceros poaching in Namibia's Kunene region.

Rhinoceros poaching has seen a dramatic increase in the last few years, and conservationists have been stepping up their efforts to fight this scourge by turning to new technologies like motion - triggered, satellite - connected remote cameras and drones.

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Manas Wildlife Sanctuary Although Asian one - horned rhinoceroses, tigers, and other endangered mammals managed to survive 15 years of a rebel occupation in this World Heritage Site in India, they still face the threat of logging and poaching due to the shortage of park police.

Some 35,000 elephants are now being killed each year, while 1000 rhinoceros were poached in South Africa alone last year.

Bret Love and Green Travel Media are partnering with over 120 bloggers to move just one rhinoceros from South Africa, where poaching is a huge problem, to Botswana, where it will be safer.

This exhibition highlights poaching and the illegal ivory trade, and how two of Africa's most grand animals, the elephant and the rhinoceros, teeter on the brink of extinction.

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.

Asian demand for rhinoceros horn for medicinal use has driven poaching in Africa and Asia to a 15 year high, WWF reports.

In summary, between 2000 - 2005, 3.5 rhinoceroses were illegally killed each month in all of Africa, but currently in South Africa and Zimbabwe alone, 12.4 rhinoceroses are being poached each month or between two and three rhinoceroses every week.