As of the 1980's there were perhaps six or seven black rhinoceros in that country. The single animal was most likely shot by poachers. In the late 1970s half of Uganda's white rhinoceros population disappeared. In 1895, colonial conservationists set aside a large tract specifically for the remaining rhinos - Africa’s first protected conservation area - now known as Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park. But because of relentless hunting and colonial land-clearing, there were no more than a few hundred individuals left in southern Africa by the end of the 19th century, and the last known breeding population was in KwaZulu-Natal Province on South Africa’s eastern coast. Richard Conniff wrote in Smithsonian magazine, White rhinos once occurred in pockets down the length of Africa, from Morocco to the Cape of Good Hope. The primary reason for the decline was the poaching of rhinoceros for their horns. ![]() The number of rhinos in Africa and Asia has plummeted from 100,000 animals in 1975 to less that 10,000 in 1995. HELPING ENDANGERED RHINOCEROS AND CRACKING DOWN ON RHINO POACHING Book: “Tiger Bone and Rhino Horn, the Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine” by Richard Ellis (Island Press, 2004) Decline of Rhinoceros in Africa RHINO HORN GANGS TARGET MUSEUMS AND ART AUCTIONS See Separate Articles: ANIMAL PARTS, ENDANGERED ANIMALS AND CHINESE MEDICINE TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE: PHILOSOPHY, SAFETY, STUDIES AND DOCTORS HUMANS, RHINOCEROS AND RHINO ATTACKS RHINO POACHING The attitude of saying that there is no crisis is a statement of denial. have solidly got their heads in the sand. "What I've seen in the past is that many politicians. There is no way that our national populations can sustain the level of poaching," Pelham Jones, chairman of the South Africa Private Rhino Owners Association, told Reuters. "We've certainly reached a tipping point in rhino populations. If the poaching situation was left unchecked, expert said, rhinoceros could become extinct in the wild by 2025. In October 2011, Vietnam’s Javan rhino was declared extinct in the country, and in November, East Africa’s Western Black Rhino was declared extinct in the wild. ![]() īy the 2010s the price of rhinoceros horn had reached $50,000 per kilogram, higher than the price of gold, the African Wildlife Foundation said. A record 1,215 rhino were poached in South Africa in 2014. South Africa is home to more than 90 percent of Africa's rhino population. In Africa, there are some 20,150 white rhinos that are near threatened and 4,840 black rhinos that are critically endangered. Rhino horn medicine The world's rhino population has declined 90 percent since 1970, conservationists estimate.
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