ISIMANGALISO Wetland Park celebrated World Rhino Day yesterday with over 1 200 people from all over KwaZulu-Natal attending the event.
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Rhinos Without Borders is celebrating the arrival of a new baby calf born to one of the rhinos that the project translocated from South Africa to Botswana earlier this year.
They say while it is important to save all rhino, it is critical to save those in KwaZulu-Natal reserves because these have the most diverse genetic pool – important to ensure the viability of future rhino populations.
Rhinos are targeted for their horns which are believed to have potent healing properties in Traditional Asian Medicine.
500 – Former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano said that nearly 500 Mozambican poachers have been killed by armed rangers at South Africa’s Kruger Park in the last five years as protection of the species is continuously upped.
For World Rhino Day, Julian Rademeyer has shared a video in which he talks about the current rhino crisis and his award-winning book, Killing for Profit: Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade. That is the same type of protein that makes up hair and fingernails.
“There is no single solution to the poaching scourge which is why we work strategically to combat rhino poaching and operate on numerous fronts”. That’s not just a startling statistic but also a startlingly absurd price to pay for something that grows on your own body. With its headquarters in the United Kingdom, the IUCN is the world’s leading authority on the conservation status of species. Both black and white rhino were absent from Swaziland for almost 70 years until 1965, when the first pair of white rhinos were reintroduced to Mlilwane Wildlife Sanctuary.
“There are several smaller parks throughout KwaZulu-Natal so it is more manageable to fit rhino with sensors”. The white rhino is the second largest land mammal after the elephant, with adult males weighing up to a massive 3.6 tons. But a surge in poaching for their horns has seen a record number killed in recent years.
Zimbabwe has lost six rhinos to poachers in the last 15 months leading to calls for better strategies tin protecting endangered species. Some have been clocked at speeds of up to 40 miles per hour!
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He said it was “absurd” for the Minister to say Hume could recoup his losses by having his rhinos hunted, whereas his intention was to preserve the species by dehorning them, but keeping them alive for the next generation.
