Sentences with phrase «used white rhino»

Lemtongthai was convicted of running a crime syndicate which used white rhino trophy hunts as a front to export rhino horn to the black market in Asia.

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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.

San Diego Zoo Global has decided to take on the enormous task of using cryopreserved tissue for cross-species cloning to revive the Northern White Rhino, with southern white rhinos as the surrogate parWhite Rhino, with southern white rhinos as the surrogate parwhite rhinos as the surrogate parents.

How about: 1) Heath Hens back and all birds genetically treatable; 2) Passenger Pigeons back; 3) Great Auks back; 4) Black - footed Ferrets disease - free; 5) Northern White Rhinos back; 6) Genetic - rescue tools in wide and responsible use; 7) Asian elephants liberated from lethal herpes; 8) Woolly Mammoths back; 9) Islands liberated from invasive rodents; 10) Lyme disease rare; 11) Hawaiian birds liberated from malaria; 12) A debate tool in use by the general public to work through controversy about new technologies.

Since 2000, China has reportedly purchased 141 rare white rhinos from South Africa — an amount that has drawn the suspicion from conservationists that the animals aren't being used for friendly purposes.

Whatever technique the scientists use to create the northern white rhino embryos, the plan is to implant them into female southern whites kept in zoos.

Genetic material from Sudan was collected before he died, in the hope that medical breakthroughs of the future would allow using that to birth northern white rhinos.

The northern white rhino is a subspecies of white rhino, which used to range over parts of Uganda, Chad, Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.