Sentences with phrase «white rhino horns»

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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.

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.

With news of the passing of Sudan, the world's last male northern white rhino, Lyn Hughes reveals the best places to see these magnificent horned beasts and help save them from extinction More

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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One more symbol of the rising global demand for rhino horn and its devastating effect on rhinoceroses in both Africa and Asia: The Guardian reports that the female white rhino in South Africa's Krugersdorp nature

Northern white rhinos have been extinct in the wild since 2008, but only because they were poached for their horns.

We're seeing the extinction of the northern white rhino happen right before our eyes, driven by the insatiable demand for their horns.