 Reference Base  Past estimates and present figures of black and white rhi... |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zimbabwe |
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Distribution - Poaching |
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African Rhino Species |
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?People can just kiss the black rhino goodbye,' Mr Jorgen Thomsen, the director of WWF-affiliate Traffic International, which monitors the international trade in fauna and flora, told a meeting of the 112-member countries of CITES, The South African and Zimbabwean delegations to CITES had requested a limited, controlled trade in rhino horn to help fund conservation, without success. Zimbabwe claims it costs R56 million (US $20 million) to run antipoaching programmes to protect its black rhinos-Africa's largest remaining and most severely threatened population-but the allocated budget is only half that amount.
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