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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April 21, 2011
The rise in rhino poaching in South Africa has now reached epidemic levels. Without the help of the Vietnamese people, all the conservation successes that have been realized in this area will soon be in vain. Indeed, any objective analysis shows that rhinos are not the only victims of rhino poaching, humans are too. [...]
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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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