African rhinoceros is about to become extinct

The African Wildlife Protection Agency has just released a report saying that in the last five years there have been nearly 1,000 killed rhinos, suggesting that wild rhino poaching has reached alarming levels. red.

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The agency warns that if African governments do not take urgent action to prevent poaching and apply effective measures to protect this rare wildlife, then a few decades. Next year, African rhino species will become extinct as in Asia today.

Prior to the red alert of the number of rhinos being hunted by poachers in Africa, wildlife protection experts in African countries met in the capital city of Nairobi, Kenya on April 3 and gave declared that wildlife protection organizations would petition and support governments to enforce hard penalties for criminals involved in illegal rhino horn trade.

In addition, African Regional Wildlife Organizations will collaborate with private ecological conservation groups to ask governments of some African countries to consider and take urgent action measures. to prevent and protect the rare and precious wildlife species, including reviewing and limiting hunting permits for citizens from Asia and working closely with the authorities In some Asian countries, it is considered that the market for consuming large rhino horns is because it is believed that rhino horn has healing effects, to prevent and destroy the criminal lines related to illegal trade and transport. Rhino horns.

In South Africa, where rhinos account for 90% of the world's rhinos and Africa, in 2011 alone there were 448 rhinos killed, especially since early 2012, nearly 140 rhinos have been Hunting poachers kill to get horns.