{"id":63946,"date":"2014-03-06T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=20f9cce14d18c2d2b8468779aa4620d1"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:42:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:42:50","slug":"the-crash-of-the-rhinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/the-crash-of-the-rhinos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crash of the Rhinos"},"content":{"rendered":"

A group of rhino is called a “Crash”. But this title is about more than that. Rhino numbers are crashing. And crashing terribly fast. Rhino poaching is on a seemingly unstoppable rise on the back of increased demand for their horns in the East (China, Vietnam, etc), where it’s (falsely) believed to have medicinal and healing properties.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Rhinos poached in South Africa by year:<\/p>\n

2010: 333
\n2011: 448
\n2012: 668
\n2013: 1004
\n2014: more than 80 to date…<\/p>\n

At the current rate of increase, the death rate will probably overtake the rate of new births sometime during the next year or two, with extinction becoming a reality not long after that.
\nWhat can we do to help? Besides funding conservation and anti-poaching efforts, not much. You can do a small part to spread word through social media and help educate end-users that their purchase of rhino horn powder or carvings fuels the death of the species.<\/p>\n

First off – sign THIS PETITION. Done? Good, thanks.<\/p>\n

The African Wildlife Foundation recently released a new ad campaign featuring Jackie Chan, in both English and Mandarin. Share these videos around on your social networks:<\/p>\n

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English:<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n