Rhino poacher jailed for 20 years in South Africa
A Mozambican rhino poacher caught at a world famous game reserve in South Africa has been jailed for 20 years, police said.
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Hong Kong seizes $1m of rhino horn in record airport haul
Two men carrying at least 24 severed rhino horns were arrested in Hong Kong airport by customs officers who said it was their largest ever seizure of rhino contraband smuggled by air passengers.
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Feb 15, 2019
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S.Africa's top court opens up domestic trade in rhino horn
South Africa's highest court Wednesday rejected a bid by the government to keep a ban on domestic trade in rhino horn, a court document showed.
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Apr 5, 2017
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S.Africa rhino poaching toll approaches 1,000
South Africa has lost nearly 1,000 rhinos this year in a poaching surge to feed the black-market demand for their horns, the environmental ministry said Thursday.
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281 rhinos killed by poachers in S. Africa this year
Poachers in South Africa have killed 281 rhinos so far this year, with the world-famous Kruger National Park accounting for over half the killings, authorities said Tuesday.
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S.Africa's first online rhino horn auction sparks anger
South Africa's first online auction of rhino horn opened Wednesday, despite conservation groups protesting that the legal, domestic sale would encourage poachers.
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First increase in rhino numbers in Africa since 2012, monitor says
There was a 5% increase in the number of rhinos observed in Africa last year, the International Union for Conservation of Nature said in an announcement Friday made to coincide with World Rhino Day.
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Legalising rhino horn trade—don't charge in blind
Between 2008 and 2016, poachers killed more than 7100 rhinos in Africa. South Africa, which has nearly 80% of Africa's rhinos, was the worst affected country, with more than 1000 rhinos killed each year over the last four ...
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How can we stop people wanting to buy illegal wildlife products?
Conservationists have been working for decades to save species such as pangolins and rhinos from illegal hunting and trading. And, with fears that the coronavirus pandemic originated from the wildlife trade, there's never ...
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Jul 9, 2020
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China's legalisation of rhino horn trade: disaster or opportunity?
The Chinese government will be reopening the nation's domestic rhino horn trade, overturning a ban that has stood since 1993. An outcry since the announcement has led to the postponement of the lifting of the ban, which currently ...
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