strategy against rhino poachers

Desperate search for a strategy against rhino poachers
Cape Town - It is a bloody, nasty business: The Poacher's most wounded or stunned by the brutal rhinos removed with axes and chainsaws, the great mighty horn meat.

The animals are left bleeding profusely and waidwund back. Most die - a painful death.

The illegal hunting of rhinos in southern Africa, their last great habitat, increases in years. By March of this year, poachers in South Africa alone have killed 135 of the pachyderms. 2011 there were 448 rhinos, 2010 or 333 - almost three times as much as in 2009. There are also legally hunted rhinos: 2011 143 paid for big game hunters up to 80,000 euros each.

The hunt is fueled by a growing market for the coveted rhino. In China and Southeast Asia, it is regarded by many as a medicine and - contrary to all scientific evidence - as an aphrodisiac, so as a means to stimulate sexual desire. Buyers pay according to the "International Rhino Foundation" up to 50,000 € per kilogram.

"Rhino poaching is operated by international organized crime," says the head of WWF in South Africa, Morné du Plessis. It is not sufficient reason, "the poachers to hunt. Governments in Africa and Asia must work together to find the gang bosses. "

ZooMumba New rhinos at the zoo

Now it is even wilder in the zoo the zoo simulation ZooMumba. You may now three new species of rhino in the kennel and breed them in your zoo offer a new home.

This time there are no pink rhino, but slate-gray, gray and dark gray pachyderm:

New to the breeding station: white rhino, black rhino and Indian rhino
The slate-gray white rhino is the largest of all living species of rhinoceros and at home in the grassy savannas of Africa. Large bulls can even reach a weight of 3.6 tonnes. The white rhino has a broad, blunt muzzle and large pointed ears and is up to the edges of ears, eyelids, and the hairless tail.

For white rhinoceros is joined by the gray black rhino, which in the African savannah, and now in East and South Africa can be found. Besides its robust body with short, strong legs, the black rhino is distinguished by its eponymous finger-shaped pointed upper lip, pulls the rhino with the leaves and branches of shrubs.

Cuba bestows Namibia 146 animals

Cuba bestows Namibia 146 animals

Taxpayers have to pay for fishing, quarantine, veterinary expenses and flights

About how much the gift of Cuba's National Zoo Park in the form of nearly 150 animals will ultimately Namibia, the Minister may only after completion of fishing operations and transport to announce. In the scientific field will enable the two countries cooperate in the future.

Windhoek - Whether it was true that the Bomas (temporary enclosures) to have cost in the Etosha National Park and the Waterberg Plateau Park of 25 million Namibian dollars in order to seal off hermetically sealed at the request of the Cubans and animals there to keep them in quarantine, answered The Minister of Environment and Tourism, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, not yesterday. "The cost of the Bomas commitments are an investment for the future, as we have numerous programs to provide animals from municipal parks and conservancies Neufarmern available and the bomas are then used," said the Minister of the Environment. She signed with the Director-General of the National Zoo-Park in Cuba, Maj. Gen. Abud Luis Miguel Soto, a cooperation agreement for scientific and technical cooperation in the field of environment with Cuba and Namibia, as well as a donation agreement.
"The people of Namibia to give Cuba 146 animals like white rhinos worth 7.5 million Namibian dollars and will pay for all fishing, quarantine, veterinary and flight costs," said Nandi-Ndaitwah. "We look forward fresh genetic material for our national zoo park and get to do everything that the animals are doing well. The Zoo Park is 342 acres in size, it more than 850 animals living there and they find a natural habitat from where they can live semi-wild, "said Maj. Gen. Soto.