It was a sad day on Thursday the 9th of February 2012 when a Rhino from the Rhino and Lion Park on the West-Rand died after an anti-poaching procedure was performed on him.
The procedure includes the injection of a dye and insecticide into the rhino's horn's to make it unappealing for poachers. A tracking device also gets inserted into the Rhino horns.
The reason for this procedure is not to poison people who consume the rhino horn but to rather make the consumption of the horn in its powder form undesirable.
A record number of 448 rhinos were poached in South Africa last year. The demand for rhino horn among some Asians who believe a rhino horn has medicinal properties, though science does not support that is believed to be the reason for the growing number of Rhinos being poached in South Africa as well as the rest of Africa.
"It's sad for us; it's the loss of another animal. It's a death that I still chalk up to poaching," said Lorinda Hern, spokeswoman for the Rhino & Lion Nature Reserve, saying extreme measures are necessary because of a poaching crisis in South Africa.
"There is always a potential risk" that a sedated animal will die, Okori said. But "the whole issue is, we are facing a serious rhino poaching crisis. This is a war. The desperation is quite high for rhino owners, to do whatever it takes to protect their rhinos." ( Joseph Okori is a wildlife veterinarian and a World Wildlife Fund rhino expert he was an independent observer on the procedure that was done on Thursday as part of WWF's research into anti-poaching techniques. )
Die Afrikaanse artikel wat in Beeld verskyn het kan gelees word by : http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Renoster-plan-eindig-tragies-20120209
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