USFWS Meets with Rhino Experts from Across the Globe to Address Africa’s Worst Rhino Poaching in Decades

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USFWS Meets with Rhino Experts from Across the Globe to Address Africa’s Worst Rhino Poaching in Decades
Well-equipped, sophisticated and organized poaching operations have killed more than 800 African rhinos in the past three years - just for their horns. With only 25,000 rhinos remaining in Africa, poaching is cause for grave concern and in early March the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service met with rhino experts from around the world to discuss what could be done to stem this devastating loss.

From March 5-10, 2011 The Service, in collaboration with SANparks, the World Wildlife Fund