Brussels 02.11.2021 A rhino with tears in his eyes: heartbreaking images show a Southern White rhino ‘weeping in pain’ after poachers hacked off his horn and crushed part of the bone in his skull in South African game reserve. BASTARDS!!! Images show rhino 'weeping in pain' after poachers hacked off his horn https://t.co/w7sKomYuoz via @MailOnline…
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Botswana: six rhinos killed by poachers
In Botswana, at least six rhinos have been poached since the virus shut down tourism. Botswana’s security forces in April shot and killed five suspected poachers in two incidents. In northwest South Africa, at least nine rhinos have been killed since the virus lockdown. All the poaching took place in what were previously tourism areas…
Tanzania elephant & rhino populations recover
Tanzania presidency reported elephant and rhino populations have begun to recover after a government crackdown dismantled organized criminal networks involved in industrial-scale poaching and transporting the ivory to China. A influential Chinese businesswoman running a poaching network on industrial scale, dubbed the “Ivory Queen” was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Tanzanian court…
Chinese poachers with $1 million rhino horns face justice
The seven Chinese stood before Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, magistrate Ms Rangarirai Gakanje. 7 Chinese Zeng Dengui (35), Peicon Jang (35), Liu Cheng (23), Yu Xian (25), Yong Zhu (25), Chen Zhiangfu (30) and Qui Jinchang (29) Found with Rhino horns worth over $ 1million near Victoria falls pic.twitter.com/s1Uc4SIff4 — AfricaDigest (@africlandpost) December 27, 2018 They…
Ten rhinos in Kenya died after transfer
Kenya’s wildlife minister apologized for being rude with his critics, and sending them to “hell” while he comes under mounting pressure over the death of 10 rhinos during a botched transfer. Kenya's wildlife minister apologises for telling critics to 'go to hell' as he comes under mounting pressure over the death of 10 rhinos during…
Sibuya: lions ‘execute’ rhino poachers
A ranger with guests at the Sibuya Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape on a safari drive on Tuesday afternoon discovered human remains close to a pride of lions. Who needs a guard dog when you have big cats? Pride of lions eat axe-wielding poachers who were apparently hunting for rhinos on the Sibuya Game…
2018 first rhino victim of poachers
Poachers shot dead a pregnant rhino and hacked off her horn in a nature reserve outside Komani (Queenstown, South Africa) this week. Lawrence de Lange Nature Reserve manager Hein Gerber said yesterday the five year-old white rhino had been due to calve in two to three weeks. “One rhino is bad enough. We were very…
Brent Stirton – wildlife photographer of the year
The Natural History Museum recognized Brent Stirton, who shoots mainly for National Geographic, as the 2017 Wildlife photographer of the year for his harrowing images of the carnage left behind by illegal hunting. The Wildlife Photojournalist Award: StoryRhino Horn: The ongoing atrocity by Brent Stirton pic.twitter.com/gtjHiiw0FS — Mahmut Tezcan (@MahmutTezcann) October 20, 2017 “To make such…
Zoo rhino killed for his horn…in Paris!
Poachers have broken into a zoo near Paris and shot a rhinoceros dead before stealing his hugely valuable ivory horn. #Breaking: Murders break into Thoiry Zoo, outside #Paris, kill an #endangered White #Rhino named Vincent, and saw off his horn. Why? Greed pic.twitter.com/QJ26IfANcd — Daniel Schneider (@BiologistDan) March 7, 2017 In the first case of…
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