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Kenyan ranger’s moving letter to American rhino hunter

Posted by jobearx on Sunday, 02 February 2014 in Earth Violators

A Kenyan grassroots initiative, Walk With Rangers, has spoken out against the controversial rhino auction held by the Dallas Safari Club that saw the highest bidder, Mr. Corey Knowlton, cough up a staggering US$350 000 to hunt an endangered black rhino in Namibia. “The sum is pittance compared to...

Rhinos Extinct in Mozambique's Limpopo National Park

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 26 April 2013 in Wildlife Conservation

Poachers have likely killed off the last rhinos in Mozambique's Limpopo National Park, according to a park official who spoke with Portugal News. Park director António Abacar said that no rhinos have been sighted in Limpopo National Park since January, "which means that the ones that lived in the pa...

Rhino Poaching in 2013

Posted by Wolf on Tuesday, 12 February 2013 in Wildlife Conservation

India Monday lost its ninth rhino to poaching so far this year within the northern state of Assam. The greater-one horned, or Indian rhino, was found shot dead with its horn removed in Kaziranga National Park. Seven other rhinos have already been killed in the park during 2013, and an additiona...

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How to Save the Rhino

Posted by Wolf on Tuesday, 18 September 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

Glen Martin Author, 'Game Changer: Animal Rights and the Fate of Africa's Wildlife' The holocaust of the African rhinoceros is accelerating, with the very real possibility that both the continent's species -- white and black rhinos -- could be extinct outside zoos in a matter of years. At the begi...