Poachers (偷猎者) are killing rhinos for their horns (角).They do it to make money. In some countries,people pay high prices for rhino horn.They believe that eating groundup rhino horn will make them healthy.But that isn't true.Rhino horn is made of keratin (角质).That's the sam...
Tigers are also on the brink of extinction due to illegal poaching. African pangolins are equally now the targets by poachers as the Asian ones become harder to find. 2. The Animals Suffer Most animals need space to roam, swing from branches, and fly. However, when captured, such privileges...
In 2014 alone, 1,215 South African rhinos were killed by poachers. Millions of dollars are spent each year on protecting the animals, with ___ limited success: last year 394 deaths were recorded. Rhino horns are highly popular in some illegal markets, selling for up to $100,000 a kilogra...
They were known to huntyoung rhinostoo; however, that’s very unlikely today, given the drastic drop in rhino numbers.Rhinosonce covered Africa in their millions, so a young rhino will have been a regular lion meal. The BBC even filmed the unthinkable – lions successfullyhunting an elephant,...
Today we heard about the death of the last male Northern White Rhino in “captivity”. Sudan reached the age of 45, but lived in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya conservancy where he was being treated for age-related complications and guarded against horn poachers by caretakers. It is unkn...
The poaching of animals for their horns, tusks, bones (as is the case with lions) or hides poses one of the most significant threats to the survival of many species in Africa including rhino, elephant, lion, leopard and cheetah and anti-poaching initiatives are the focus of many conservation...