October 31, 2011
If the current state of zero accountability for wildlife protection continues, other species will follow the rhino to extinction Participants watch projected images including of smuggled rhino horns (R) seized during a press conference on the launch of a rhino population survey report in Vietnam in Hanoi on October 25. A critically endangered species [...]
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October 12, 2011
A Vietnamese delegation has finalized a wildlife protection agreement with South Africa focusing on the rhinoceros. Under the agreement, a campaign will be launched against the deep-rooted belief in Vietnam that the endangered creature’s horn is a powerful medicine. Nguyen Trung Kien, member of the delegation and counselor of the Vietnam embassy in South [...]
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October 8, 2011
South African protesters hold signs during a demonstration outside the Chinese embassy in Pretoria on September 22, calling on the government to stop poachers from killing rhinos for their horns. A plan to legalize the rhino horn trade in South Africa has drawn flak from experts concerned the move would be a setback for conservation [...]
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September 22, 2011
Veterinarians try to sedate a badly injured white rhino after poachers sawed off its horn on the Aquila Game Reserve in Touws River, some 180 Km North of Cape Town, in August 2011. China, Vietnam and Thailand, where rhinoceros horns are used for supposed medicinal properties, need to match South Africa’s efforts to end a [...]
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September 20, 2011
Veterinarians try to sedate a badly injured white rhino after poachers sawed off its horn on the Aquila Game Reserve in Touws River, some 180 Km North of Cape Town, in August 2011. A delegation from Vietnam will visit South Africa next week to discuss ways to stem the growth rhino poaching, with nearly 300 [...]
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May 2, 2011
Poaching, habitat encroachment could push pachyderms to extinction in Vietnam very soon, experts warn Beckham, the elephant, was found dead in Da Lat last Sunday. Vietnam’s Asian elephant population may be wiped out in the next decade if rampant poaching and habitat loss are not addressed, conservationists say. The most recent killing of an [...]
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December 19, 2009
A rhinoceros shot dead in Zimbabwe With Vietnamese believing rhino horns have magical medicinal properties and willing to pay big money for them, the giant animal is being driven to extinction. Nguyen Van Lam, a former deputy head of the Government Office, resigned in July 2006 after he was found to have accepted cash as [...]
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August 10, 2009
John Sellar is no comic book super hero, but judging by the criminals he deals with as the only policeman at the UN agency against illegal wildlife trade, he could well be one. Russian mafia, Latin American drug lords, suspected rebel or terror groups and crooked Asian diplomats count among poachers of rhinoceros, tigers and [...]
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July 11, 2009
One of the last Javan Rhinos of Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam, caught on film with a camera trap (Photo courtesy of rhinoresourcecenter.com) Demand for rhinoceros horns in Asia in general, and Vietnam in particular, has driven poaching to a 15-year-high and pushed the animals perilously close to extinction, major conversation groups have warned. âIllegal [...]
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