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Technology Catches Up With Rhino Poachers

Rhino poaching in South Africa

by allAfrica.com Mbombela — A rhino DNA sample kit is expected to help prosecutors be even tougher on those caught with rhino horns. If DNA tests positively link a horn to a specific rhino carcass, poachers will no longer get away with only a charge of possession, they will also be charged with the illegal [...]

The War on Rhinos Worsens

Rhino poaching in South Africa

by African Indaba While legal rhino hunting does exist in some parts of Africa, poaching is still rampant in many areas. A recent flurry of blogs, webpostings and newspaper reports focused on the worsening rhino crisis in Southern Africa. On August 18th a male white rhino was killed by poachers in the iMfolozi Game Reserve [...]

A Rhino in the Bathroom

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I came accross this story recently while browsing HuntersNetworks.com. It is about a man who found a poached rhino in Africa and while looking for evidence, found a baby rhino. He took it home and is raising it. Pretty cool story. The news came in from a gamescout patrol via hand-held radio. A rhino had [...]