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Princes Call For Illegal Wildlife Trade Ban
Cape Town :: South Africa | 4 days ago
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Along with Environment Secretary Owen Paterson they will tell delegates from around the world that the trade presents a grave threat not only to the natural world, but also to global security. The conference will hear that both black and white rhino
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Rhino calf death at Hamilton Zoo (Fuseworks)
Auckland :: New Zealand | 1 month ago
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Journey Invite friends to discover what they are reading by connecting to Facebook. Connect with friends on Facebook and start sharing new and exciting content. Rhino calf death at Hamilton Zoo Hamilton City Council, Fuseworks April 24, 2013, 8:44 am
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Rhino conservationist dies in South Africa
Johannesburg :: South Africa | 1 month ago
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A game reserve in Kenya plans to hold a memorial next month for Anna Merz, a conservationist who sought to protect the rhinoceros from systematic poaching that has severely depleted its numbers in Africa. The Lewa Wildlife Conservancy says Merz, who
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South Africa Rhinos Under Threat From Poaching
Cape Town :: South Africa | 1 month ago
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Despite a range of tactics like deploying the army, mounting helicopter patrols and even using drones in the past few months to try to pinpoint the poachers, the killing of rhinos for their horns is continuing at an alarming rate. More than 200
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Six rhinos are secretly translocated from South Africa to Botswana to beat poaching
Gaborone :: Botswana | 2 months ago
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20 March 2013 Six white rhinos are making their way across South Africa to a hidden location in Botswana, in what is the world's first private game reserve rhino donation. South Africa lost 668 white rhinos to illegal poaching in 2012, and in the
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Vietnam urged to redouble rhino trade fight
Bangkok :: Thailand | 2 months ago
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Vietnam was on Tuesday urged to do more to fight the illegal trade in rhino horn, which is highly prized in the Southeast Asian nation for its supposed medicinal qualities. Bangkok, appealed for greater global efforts to prosecute traffickers and
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Wild rhinos may be extinct 'within 20 years'
Cape Town :: South Africa | 3 months ago
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Trade in rhino horn was banned in 1977 but not everyone is convinced the tactic designed to protect the animal has worked...In a paper published in Science on Friday, two Australian researchers call for the legal trade of rhino horn. Harvested from
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Genetic 'rhino capital' threatened
Bangkok :: Thailand | 3 months ago
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Since the beginning of 2013 a rhino has been lost to poaching every 11 hours, and this rapid decline in population numbers is having far-reaching implications for rhino genetics, according to rhino expert Dr Mike Knight. Species Survival Commission's
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Drone enters the war against rhino poachers
Baghdad :: Iraq | 4 months ago
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Kenya is set to get its first pilotless plane for use in preventing poachers from killing the last seven northern white rhinos in a Laikipia County conservancy. A month-long international campaign by renowned fund-raising site, Indiegogo, raised Sh3.
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Rhino named S Africa newsmaker of 2012
Cape Town :: South Africa | 4 months ago
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THE rhino has been named South Africa's newsmaker for 2012, based on the extensive media coverage around the slaughter of the creature for its horn. It is the first time that such recognition has gone to an animal, as poaching figures reach all-time
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