C
ountless
methods and
ideas have been
introduced to
protect these
animals. They’ve increased the
number of guards, set up more
cameras, injected poison into
horns, and have even sawed
the rhino horns to make them
useless to poachers. If you
visit rhino the conservancy
in Kruger forest, you will see
rhino calves traumatized by
their mothers’ deaths. These
“babies” are brought there and
fed with bottles of milk. They are
kept in a stable with a mature
female rhino so that they can
be acquainted with their new
mother.
When the breast-feeding period
passes, the mother and her
little rhi no will be released to
the forest. Healthy rhinos living
in the areas with high density
hunting are taken to the transfer
station and sent to less dangerous
areas.
However rough, clumsy, and
slow rhinos seem to be, they
have extremely sensitive skin,
and at 40 mph (60kph) they
can run 3 times faster than the
world’s fastest human. Rhino’s
skin looks stiff, but it is soft and
very sensitive to insects. That’s
the reason rhinos love soaking
in water; to protect their skin
from being bitten. The only
thing this good natured creature
does is eat grass; nevertheless,
nowadays, their peaceful lives
are threatened by poachers who
are eager to saw off their horns
and cut out their genitals to sell
in Asia.
of extinction. Meanwhile,
the International Union for
Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
confirmed that the West African
black rhinos have disappeared
completely as neither people nor
equipment have detected them
since 2006.
Africa is not so hot, poor, and full
of evils as people think. You must
visit it yourself to realize how
beautiful and rich this continent
is with its endless grasslands
stretching to the horizon and
countless animals such as lions,
leopards, zebras, gazelles, and
rhinos. However, within 100
years, the number of northern
white rhinos has decreased from
2,000 to 15 in 1984, and as of
2016, the World Wild Fund has
only one surviving male white
rhino on record. Poachers are
pushing rhinos toward the brink
Strongly believing rhino horns
to be a panacea, wealthy Asians
won’t stop demanding this
pseudo-scientific elixir while
Africa has made every effort to
save the last remaining rhinos
on our planet. The increased
demand of rhinos is the main
cause for the threat of extinction.
What can we do now when the
Vietnamese demand is still so
high and poachers are doing
everything they can to make a
fortune selling rhino horns?
What can we do now to save the
last wild land of the Earth?
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