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The number of critically endangered black rhinos has increased slightly, but there is bad news for other rhino species.
A South African university has launched an anti-poaching campaign to inject the horns of rhinos with radioactive isotopes ...
South Africa’s New Weapon Against Poachers | Vantage with Palki Sharma South Africa is taking a bold step to stop rhino ...
South African scientists have launched an anti-poaching campaign in which rhino's horns will be injected with a radioactive ...
The process is safe and harmless to the animals, but will allow authorities to detect smuggled horns as they're transported ...
In Mokopane, South Africa, researchers at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg have launched the Rhisotope Project, ...
South Africa has the largest rhino population in the world and hundreds of rhinos are poached every year.According to BBC, horns of African rhinos are exported to Asian markets where consumers ...
The IAEA is supporting South Africa’s Rhisotope Project which uses radioactive tagging in rhino horns to combat illegal ...
It costs about $1,500 to move a single rhino by land within South Africa; $5,500 per rhino for land transport to neighboring nations; and $50,000 per rhino for air transport to African countries ...
Rhino poachers have turned their attention to South Africa’s oldest state-run nature reserve where they killed 307 of the endangered animals last year. The shift to the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park in ...
Last year, 66 rhino horns worth several million dollars on the illegal market were stolen from a private wildlife reserve in South Africa’s Limpopo province, according to local media.
Rhinos have long been a symbol of Africa’s wild beauty. But now, science is stepping in to protect them in a new way. A team ...