Rampant Rhino Poaching - South Africa
Despite a legal supply of horns from private farmers having been released on the domestic market, the latest poaching figures gathered from around the country indicate staggering numbers of rhinos continue to be killed illegally by heavily armed poaching gangs.
Nowhere is this more evident than in KwaZulu-Natal, where a fresh wave of rhino killings swept across the province's game parks last month, leaving more rhinos slaughtered in a single month than ever before.
Before the month of September had ended, 36 rhinos had been butchered for their horns in KZN over a period of 29 or fewer days. Most of the incidents occurred in the killing fields at Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, home to the founding population of the southern white rhino.
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