Save the black rhino
Poachers kill rhinos for the price they can get for the horns (used for traditional Chinese medicine and for ornamental dagger handles in Yemen); land encroachment, illegal logging and pollution are destroying their habitat. Money will fund effective anti-poaching conservation programmes to save the black rhinos of Northwestern Namibia.
Created 11 months ago by Green Voice
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We know that conservation efforts save species. The Southern white rhino would not exist today if it were not for the work of a few determined people, who brought together the 200 or so individuals surviving, for a managed breeding and re-introduction programme. Today, there are some 11,100 Southern white rhinos.
The black rhinoceros of Northwestern Namibia are typical of a population that have been poached to near extinction and are now showing a recovery in numbers following the successful implementation of appropriate conservation measures. This programme needs more money to continue the anti-poaching field work to save the black rhino population.
Anti-poaching
Effective field protection has been critical to success over the last decade. Experience indicates that to achieve success, it is necessary to concentrate law enforcement at or above minimum threshold levels. Apart from having a sufficient manpower density on the ground, field rangers need to be well trained, equipped and effectively deployed. In some reserves, additional specialist anti-poaching units operate in addition to standard field ranger patrols.
While pro-active and reactive anti-poaching patrols can reduce the level of poaching and chances of catching rhino poachers, experience has shown that the setting up and running of informer networks can prove particularly useful and cost-effective. Effort and training is also required to ensure the effective investigation, successful prosecution and sentencing of those guilty of rhino crimes. Ultimately, rhino crimes are perpetrated because of the illegal demand for rhino horn, and so efforts are being made to reduce the illegal demand where possible. Another important aspect of law enforcement is the management, monitoring and protection of legal rhino horn stockpiles.
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The threat to rhinos’ survival
Poaching for luxury productsPoaching for Traditional Chinese MedicinePolitical conflictPoaching for luxury productsGenerally speaking, the horn from rhinos killed in East Africa tends to end up in the Yemen, where it is made into ornamental handles for daggers (jambiyas) while horn from rhino...
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Ten good reasons to save rhino
1. Rhinos are critically endangeredAt the turn of the 19th century, there were approximately one million rhinos. In 1970, there were around 70,000. Today, there are fewer than 18,000 rhinos surviving in the wild.Four of the five species of rhino are “Critically Endangered” as defined by the IUCN (World Conservation Union). A taxon is classified as critically ...
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Intro to Save the Rhino Trust, Namibia
Introduction to Save the Rhino Trust, NamibiaSave the Rhino Trust (SRT) is an indigenous Namibian non-governmental organisation (Reg. no. WO 53). SRT has been actively engaged in the conservation of the black rhino (Diceros bicornis bicornis) inhabiting the communal areas, in the arid Northwest of Kunene and Erongo Region (formally Damaraland and Kaokoland), for 23 years. SRT effect...
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Created by Green Voice, Last updated 11 months ago,
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