1. Saving the Black Rhino
... respond to local investment schemes, but the discouragement of organized gangs can only be achieved with improved law enforcement operations. Despite the 1977 ban on all trade in rhino horn, black rhino numbers decreased from approximately 5,000 in 1970 to 2400 in 1995, and the species remains listed as critically endangered. The large decrease is due to insufficient protection from poachers ... areas where they could roam where now there aren't. In South Africa and Namibia where protection has remained good populations have continued to increase. Since 1995, the total number of Black R...
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