Doing Something about Poaching Rhinos

The South African Government has agreed to posting 150 extra rangers in the world-renowned Kruger National Park, in attempts to discourage poachers from hunting rhinoceroses for their horns.

There has been record poaching in the park, in fact, last week, park rangers found 8 dead rhinoceroses in the park, horns cut off. South Africa is known for illegal poaching, holding what is  said up to more than half the world's population of rhinos. Last year, 448 rhinos were shot in South Africa, and more than half of them killed within the boundaries of Kruger Park.

The recent rise in rhinoceros poaching is mostly blamed on the spiking demand for rhino horn is Asia, where in some places it is believed that rhino horn can cure various diseases. With the addition of the Park Rangers, their total number shall be increased from 500 to 650. With any luck, the rangers, along with a few other precautionary measures, rhinoceros poaching will decrease, if not stop.

  

                   ~Paul Ford, African Informer.

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/01/16/Rhino-poaching-up-in-South-Africa/UPI-83901326756566/?spt=hs&or=sn