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CHIPPING RHINOS - IS POISON THE ANSWER TO POACHING?
DECEMBER 1, 2013
Rhinos are worth more dead than alive to the poaching syndicates, to replace a rhino costs about R300 000. Once a rhino is chipped, there horns are dyed bright red to signify they have been soaked in an ectoparasitic poison. This move is being replicated at game farms across the country. Poisoned horns are of no use to anybody. If you shoot a rhino and take the horn, it is absolutely pointless. Anbody who ingests it... well, if they do not visit a doctor fairly quickly they will die - and also people who handle it. It also cant be used as an ornament because of the red dye.
POACHERS WINNING AS RHINO LOSSES REACH 860.
DECEMBER 4, 2013
Yet another rhino is killed in the Kruger National Park. This brings the total of 860 rhinos killed nationally, 521 of them killed in the park. Can we win? The answer is not yet. Can it be won? It can be won, but things will have to be done differently. There were 118 iilegal hunters that were stopped this year in the park, of whom 40 were killed. As poachers become more aggressive they resist arrest. There are alot more poor people than there are animals or rhino, and poor people are abused by greedy people.
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MIRACLE IN THE BUSH.
DECEMBER 7, 2013
A rhino which survived an attack by poachers has fallen pregnant in the Kariega Game Reserve outside Port Elizabeth. The pregnancy of the rhino named Thandi came as people remembered former President Nelson Mandela. The rhino survived the attack in which two bulls were killed. Her story has touched countless lives across the globe and her courage is reflected in our love for her and her species.
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