Related news. COPs and Rhinos 29 Oct Keeping connected is a matter of survival 14 Oct Rhinos increase in Kenya 2 Sep World Ranger Day 31 Jul Hear more from Save the Rhino Sign up to our monthly newsletter to keep up to date with our latest stories and events. I would like to receive email updates from Save the Rhino. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. We use cookies to give you the best online experience. Accept Refuse Read more. But there are certain natural limits to any legal offer of the horn because a harvested horn takes about a year or two to grow again.
So, whether the breeders can meet the enormous demand from Asia, has to be cautiously analysed. Many organisations, including the World Wildlife Fund, believe local communities are key to the success in protecting rhinos. Rural communities, even those in close proximity to the National Parks, have in many places lost contact with the wildlife in their neighbourhood; many children have never seen a Rhinoceros in their life.
And even worse, children whose fathers are convicted and arrested as poachers might ultimately blame the animal for their fatherless childhood. An empathic connection to the animals is unlikely to grow within such a vicious cycle. However, if the communities are integrated, for example in the transition process from hunting to sustainable tourism, and participate in the profits, they might recognise the value — if only a monetary one — of wildlife.
Some conservation activists even suggest that the communities themselves should become owners of the animals in order to tackle the attraction of easy poaching money with an alternative legal and long-term perspective. But here, too, the question remains: if the potential income of eco-tourism could compensate for the temptations that the immense price for wild horn offers. Also, one should not underestimate the importance of schools and children. Educational projects such as the Chirundu School Project — we visited this school in Zimbabwe and will report about this project in a later episode —, which involves children in conservation programs can play an important role in raising awareness among them, their families and communities.
Therefore, many consider the approach of breaking the demand for horn in Southeast Asia to be the most promising. But what could such a strategy look like? For the Wildlife Justice Commission WJC , an NGO based in Amsterdam, it is clearly a social solution that is needed in those demand countries, like China and Vietnam in particular, and it requires a multifaceted solution.
The WJC is using intelligence from undercover operations in order to provide support for national and international law enforcement on the ground.
But the organisation is also trying to incorporate initiatives seeking to change behaviours in these countries. The aim is to reduce demand for endangered animals for medicinal purposes, but also as a status symbol. It's a long-term mission for behavioural changes, but if it ever pays off, it would possibly be the most elegant way of getting hold of the poaching problem.
No demand for rhino horn, no rhino poaching. It's called Cryopreservation. The idea is to freeze male semen and female ovules, but also embryos, so that they can be kept — theoretically for eternity.
With such a genetic reserve, a biobank of endangered species, the future of the three remaining Northern White Rhinos might have looked a little more promising than it does today. They're now inevitably facing extinction , although researchers are trying to save the species with some stem cell-based reproduction methods. Whether the final successful method will be the latest laboratory high technology or a return to a harmonious coexistence of communities on the ground; whether it will demand another armed campaign against poachers or a social media campaign against horn as a remedy or jewellery in Vietnam and China, saving our rhinos remains a race against time, with an outcome filled with uncertainty.
John Hume on his rhino breeding farm by Fight for the Rhino. They are under threat from poachers and more than rhino have been illegally hunted in in South Africa.
At present, there is no adequate data on population trends for six of the 13 species. It is a matter of distress that three of the species namely Black Rhinoceros, Sumatran Rhinoceros and Javan Rhinoceros are currently enlisted as critically endangered whereas another species named as Indian Rhinoceros is categorized as vulnerable.
Besides, species management activities such as harvest and trading restriction are crucial in this direction. Likewise, species recovery could be possible by developing national conservation parks. Scientific breakthroughs such as IVF, gene editing, stem cell research , etc.
Usage of GPS and drone technologies can also have a positive impact on tracking threatened rhino species. Moreover, there are countries in the world which signed the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species CITES to prevent trading of wild animals if they are under extinction threat. Other local and national laws to prevent poaching should be introduced sooner rather than later.
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