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AFP reports:
Poachers attacked three of the six rhino on the Aquila Game Reserve, killing one outright and injuring this one badly. This rhino bull was tranquilised by poachers, who then sawed off his primary horn, and began cutting the smaller one, but were apparently disturbed and left. The critically injured male is one of the latest victims in South Africa's rhino bloodbath, which is surging on privately owned reserves as criminal syndicates target easier prey for the Asian black market.
Rhino horn is used in traditional Asian medicine to cure a range of ailments from fever to cancer, and sells for more than cocaine despite having no scientific medicinal value. South Africa has lost 275 rhinos to poaching this year, up from 13 in 2007, with a recent swing to private reserves which hold about a quarter of the country's rhinos. Read the full story.
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what will the asians do when there,s non left ,shame on those people ,we should fine them 1 billion dollars for every Rhino killed! maybe then they will change their outdated medical vodoo ways , those creatures belong to the future of this planet ,not to the selfish greedy humans of today.
Here is the video of the rhinos. It is heartbreakg.
Four...that's it. Four members of an animal species remains, brought to extinction by a species that continues breeding and reproducing like flies on a pile of s**t.
WWF Officials blame the poaching surge on organised crime syndicates selling rhino horn for use in Asian medicinal treatments -- especially in Vietnam, where it is believed to cure cancer. "In order to save rhinos from extinction, the criminal syndicates operating between South Africa and Vietnam must be uncovered and shut down for good," Joseph Okori, WWF's African rhino programme coordinator. "Vietnam should follow South Africa's example and start sending poachers, traders, smugglers and sellers to jail."
The criminal enteprise smuggling Rhino horns for huge demand in China market all these years.
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/15/8821794-rhinoceros-horns-seized-in-hong-kong-port-from-cape-town-shipment
WWF, you are too dumb to blame on Viet Nam and other countries for poaching Rhino and exotic animals, wrong targets. Why would you afraid to tell China the truth and asking for their crackdowns. How much money WWF received from smugglers and China?