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    Rhinoceros poaching in southern Africa is the illegal act of slaughtering rhinoceros in the southern African countries of Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and...
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    southern white rhinoceros and ranges throughout southern Africa. Following the phylogenetic species concept, research in 2010 suggested the southern and...
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    The black rhinoceros, black rhino or hook-lipped rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) is a species of rhinoceros, native to eastern and southern Africa including...
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    Poaching of the animal has gone virtually unchecked in most of Africa, and the non-violent nature of the rhinoceros makes it susceptible to poaching....
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    "Vietnam's Appetite For Rhino Horn Drives Poaching In Africa". NPR. Retrieved 27 September 2021. "What is a rhinoceros horn made of?". Yesmag.bc.ca. 9 October...
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    the savanna of sub-Saharan Africa, but its numbers declined due to poaching. The western black rhinoceros resided primarily in Cameroon, but surveys since...
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    However, poaching remains a continuous threat. Rhinoceros unicornis was the scientific name used by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 who described a rhinoceros with...
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    black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis occidentalis) is a subspecies of the black rhinoceros, living in southwestern Africa (northern Namibia and southern Angola...
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    has a prehensile lip and lives in savanna habitat. The south-central black rhinoceros once ranged from western and southern Tanzania, through Malawi, Zambia...
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    eastern black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis michaeli), also known as the East African black rhinoceros, is a subspecies of the black rhinoceros. Its numbers...
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    white rhinoceros). This subspecies is a grazer in grasslands and savanna woodlands. Formerly found in several countries in East and Central Africa south...
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    genus Rhinoceros, of the rhinoceros family, Rhinocerotidae, and one of the five remaining extant rhinoceros species across South Asia and Africa. The Javan...
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    Africa a rich array of biomes, from biodiversity-rich tropical forests to drylands supporting rare and endangered fauna such as pangolins, rhinoceros...
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    In Africa, the Big five game animals are the lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant, and African buffalo. The term was coined by big-game hunters to refer...
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    East-Southeast Asia. Elephants and rhinoceros are poached for ivory and rhinoceros horn. The trends of rhinoceros and elephant poaching are largely dependent on...
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    poaching, and their weapons were outdated. Well-organized networks facilitated smuggling the ivory through Sudan. Poaching also increased in Kenya in...
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  • Eco Defense Group (category Environmental organizations based in Utah)
    training program with South African National Parks and NCC Environmental Services firefighters. Rhinoceros poaching in Southern Africa Pangolin trade "This charity...
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    Charlene, Princess of Monaco (category African Games medalists in swimming)
    philanthropic matters. In May 2021, while on a trip to raise awareness about the issue of rhinoceros poaching in Southern Africa, Princess Charlene caught...
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    Northern white rhinoceroses are guarded 24 hours a day at the conservancy to protect them from poaching, which is a major problem for rhinoceroses. The protection...
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    United States, and poaching equaled or exceeded the number of animals hunted legally. As trophy hunting became popular, poaching activity, in particular commercial...
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    Poaching is the illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rights. Poaching was once performed by impoverished peasants...
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    rhinoceros to have survived being poached. Thandi grew up in Kariega Game Reserve with several other rhinoceroses. After the poaching incident, she was named Thandi...
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    Rhino poaching in Assam is the illegal act of slaughtering rhinoceros in the region of Assam, India. Poaching of rhinos is one of the major environmental...
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    Serengeti National Park (category Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets)
    1996 due to poaching, but increased to 28,524 individuals by 2008. The black rhinoceros population was reduced to about 10 individuals in the 1980s due...
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  • Lawrence Anthony (category 20th-century South African people)
    rescue the remaining Northern White rhinoceros in the DR Congo. Member of the governing council of the Southern Africa Association for the Advancement of...
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    Hluhluwe–Imfolozi Park (category Nature reserves in South Africa)
    of white rhinoceros in the world, although this population remains severely threatened by the poaching of hundreds of rhinos every year in the park....
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    Kaziranga National Park (category National parks in Assam)
    passed the Assam (Rhinoceros) Bill, which imposed heavy penalties for rhinoceros poaching.[citation needed] Fourteen years later, in 1968, the state government...
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    Etosha National Park (category 1907 establishments in German South West Africa)
    rhinoceros. Sixty-one black rhinoceros were killed during poaching in Namibia during 2022, 46 of which were killed in Etosha. The park is located in the...
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    poaching crisis in South Africa as 200 killed in six months". The Guardian. London. 2011-07-04. [3], Rhino Poaching Numbers Fall in South Africa in 2015...
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  • Meru National Park (category Protected areas established in 1966)
    cheetah, eastern black rhinoceros, southern white rhinoceros, Grévy's zebra, hippopotamus. Meru was one of the two areas in which conservationists George...
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