Outdated Medicines Drive Rhinos To Extinction
Posted: January 21st, 2011 | Author: GuestAuthor | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Nature, Safari, travel, wildlife | No Comments »Game Poaching is still a huge problem that Africa has to face especially with the small amount of Rhino which need to be kept alive.
Caucuses of animals such as Rhino’s and Elephants are being discovered more communally than they were 10 years ago due to the sawing prices of Ivory and exotic traditional medicines which use odd array of ingredients. the price of a rhino horn is phenomenal at $59,00 her Kg
the zoological society of London and the Chinese university of hong kong have bother carried out extensive research on rhino horns and have both discovered no healing properties..
The Kruger national park in South Africa has 83 cases of poached rhino which were found by rangers or safari tour coaches. The Hardest hit reserve was the Kruger national park in South Africa where 83 of the three hundred odd rhino’s were found dead by park rangers or tourists on safari’s holidays.
Precautions are in place to stop these poachers performing such terrible acts, although it’s hard to counteract modern day poachers who are prepared with suppressed rifles, night vision goggles and some even have helicopters which help them go unnoticed during the night.
Nowadays there’s over 20,000 wild rhinos is game parks and reserves throughout the African continent, these figures are very inspirational when you imagine there were less than 100 in existence in the early 70′s due to over hunting and poaching.
Chain reactions will be seen throughout the entire country as tourists will no longer take SouthsouthAfrica holidays but will venture to another African country which still inhabits the prestigious rhino so their safari experiences will entails all of the “big five”, so before you know it Mozambique holidays will be the next big safari vacations.
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