Film documentary movie on rhino poaching

For a handful of horn
TV Documentary "Saving Rhino Phila '

In South Africa this year have been shot illegally for over 360 rhinos.
 landowners trying to save their animals. Phila the rhino became a symbol in the fight against poachers.

Chewy Nature: The black rhino Phila was shot several times and now lives in a zoo in Johannesburg.
T he 
 raid is well prepared. The helicopter is ready, the car with the ground troops on the way to Allan Salkinders farm. The guns are in the trunk. Mid-June 2010, Region Limpopo, South Africa. Somewhere in the vastness of Allan's game farm, 6000 acres of bush land, poachers cut the wire fence, enter the premises of the private reserve. Mobile and wireless devices are on reception, the GPS device in your pocket. Night vision equipment, supplies for the night, tuna cans, cola, chip bags. Rifles. AK-47 Kalashnikovs. The poachers must know the terrain must have been here once before. You do not do that as a hobby. The groups are organized gangs. They come with airplanes, helicopters, automatic weapons. They are well equipped, and they shoot at police or rangers when they interfere with the hunting of rhinos. Poachers are shot, it hits mostly the henchmen.

South Africa wants to be free trade in rhino

The South African government has announced that it wants to share trading rhino. South Africa wants to apply for it to lift the current ban on international trade for 36 years with Rhino.


"Rhino"
+ + + South Africa wants to be free trade in rhino
 
+ + + Sorry record in South Africa: 461 dead rhinos
 
+ + + Lust for rhino reached India
 
+ + + The bloody Horn of Africa
 

In South Africa, 428 rhinos have already been killed

The white rhinoceros (also known as White Rhino) is hunted illegally in South Africa.

The carnage is preventable
Rediscovered supposedly extinct bird
Mice: Long-life are more cautious than short-lived
Grisons deer population has reached Portable Size
If neophytes serve our caterpillars as food

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.

Barometer of life shows animal distress

Nearly 4,000 known species are threatened with extinction, shows the
current Red List. While conservationists can achieve success - but
many living things are heading towards its end. And some animals the
world must now say goodbye for ever.

Hamburg - The number of known species threatened with extinction has
increased within a year by just over 300 to 3879th The World
Conservation Union (IUCN) has published on Thursday in its
reassessment of the Red List, however, also covers far more animals
and plants than in 2010 - with around 61 900 species. So will the list
more comprehensive to a "barometer of life", said the IUCN. As "high
risk" are now 5689 species as "endangered" 10 002.

"The updated list shows both good and bad news about the status of
many species worldwide," said Jane Smart, Director of the IUCN Global
Species Programme. One in four mammals is threatened, according to the
list, endangered or critically endangered.

Bad is the situation such as the rhinoceros: the western black rhino
is now officially extinct as the northern white rhino subspecies are
listed as possibly extinct. The Javan rhino, which was originally
native to many Southeast Asian countries, is found now only on the
island of Java. The last specimen in Vietnam in 2010 was killed by
poachers.

Success story of the Przewalski horse

But there was also success stories, it was announced at the IUCN. So
be the stock of the southern white rhinos from around 100 at the end
of the 19th Century to more than 20,000 grown. Of the Przewalski's
horses, which in 1996 were only in zoos, again, there were more than
300 in the wild. In June, the IUCN reported that the well
ausgetrottete Arabian Oryx in the wild after successful breeding
programs could be resettled in the Arabian Peninsula. "These successes
show that the effort is worthwhile and can be saved in the wild
extinct or highly endangered species," said Stefan Ziegler, species
protection expert at WWF Germany.

The situation of reptiles called the IUCN alarming. In Madagascar, now
40 percent of the land-dwelling reptile species are threatened,
endangered or critically endangered.

The researchers still have to do some work to plant species worldwide
to capture as accurate as the animal world. The updated list is an
inventory of coniferous trees. They show some disturbing trends, the
IUCN. For example, the growing Chinese water spruce, once widespread
in China and Vietnam, barely in the wild. The conversion of forests
into agricultural land has brought the species to the brink of
extinction, they could soon occur only in parks.

Of the 79 species of flowering plants found only in the Seychelles, 77
percent are threatened with extinction.

"The plants we calibrate the barometer of life right now," Tim
Entwisle said of the British Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. "But with
their relatives, the fungi and algae, we still have no idea what it's
all out there and what we lose everything."