Unfortunately, it appears that the West African Black Rhinoceros has just been poached to extinction. (National Geographic News, World Conservation Union-IUCN).
About 3,000 other Black Rhino's remain- in 1960, there were 100,000.
They are killed mainly for their horns, to be used mostly in China for rheumatism and arthritis treatments (not to renew male virility as commonly thought). They are also poached for decorative knife handles throughout the middle east, particularly in Yemen.
There are five surviving subspecies of Rhino. Only about 50 Javan and 200 Sumatran Rhino's survive.
Trade in Rhino parts has been internationally illegal since 1980, but the slaughter continues...
"Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."
Cree Indian Prophecy
About 3,000 other Black Rhino's remain- in 1960, there were 100,000.
They are killed mainly for their horns, to be used mostly in China for rheumatism and arthritis treatments (not to renew male virility as commonly thought). They are also poached for decorative knife handles throughout the middle east, particularly in Yemen.
There are five surviving subspecies of Rhino. Only about 50 Javan and 200 Sumatran Rhino's survive.
Trade in Rhino parts has been internationally illegal since 1980, but the slaughter continues...
"Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."
Cree Indian Prophecy
posted by Zero at 11:14 AM
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