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Anti-Poaching Insights From A Game Ranger
Sean van Niekerk, an experienced Game Ranger, gave us some incredible insights into the life of a game ranger and the ...
A Seattle biotech company called Pembient announced a new plan to staunch the bloody, inhumane, and short-sighted business of rhino poaching. Dürer was then at the height of his powers ...
Poaching devastates the rhino population and has broader ecological and socio-economic implications. This article delves into the grim reality of rhino poaching and underscores the vital ...
Rhino owners are also on the front-lines of poaching, spending big sums each year on private security to protect their herds. Owners argue that a legal rhino horn trade would provide them with the ...
In South Africa, rhino poaching is a major problem. Home to the largest rhino population in the world, the country is an incredibly important region for conservation – but poaching levels have ...
“Poaching is being undertaken almost without exception by sophisticated criminals, sometimes hunting from helicopters and using automatic weapons,” says Dr. Joseph Okori, WWF’s African Rhino Programme ...
LIMPOPO – The fight against rhino poaching took centre stage at the latest conservation evening hosted by the Phalaborwa Natural Heritage Foundation (PNHF) on Wednesday, March 5. Wildlife ...
Rhino poaching in South Africa was 15 per cent higher in 2021 than the preceding year as coronavirus restrictions that limited movement were eased, official figures showed Tuesday. A total of 451 ...
"And then the heartache began," he says. Now, as South Africa faces a seventh straight yearly increase in rhino poaching, Jones is on a panel of experts studying an unusual proposal for battling ...
South Africa's rhino poaching declined by 16 percent last year when a total of 420 rhinos were poached for their horns, 79 less than those poached in 2023, according to Dion George, minister of ...