“Disciplinary action will definitely be taken if the findings point towards negligence or unprofessional misconduct on the part of any KWS officers,” said Muia. Kenya’s tourism minister, Najib Balala has now suspended the translocation of rhinos in the country. Lions kill suspected rhino poachers who sneaked onto South African game reserve Investigators say lions killed poachers who snuck onto the reserve to hunt rhinos. She added: “We’re all very anxious for the remaining three – that they may not survive either if eight have died and if it was the salt water then the remaining three are very much at risk.”įile photo of a pride of lions at the Sibuya Game Reserve in South Africa. “Rhino translocations also have major welfare considerations, and I dread to think of the suffering that these poor animals endured before they died.” “Moving rhinos is complicated, akin to moving gold bullion, it requires extremely careful planning and security due to the value of these rare animals,” conservationist Kahumbu of WildlifeDirect said in a statement. It is thought moving rhinos from a freshwater environment into a new one with saltwater is part of the challenges of relocating the animals. Now what?Ī preliminary investigation into the incident showed that they died of salt poisoning in their new environment, according to Muia. The world's last male northern white rhino is dead. AFP / Tony KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images) TONY KARUMBA/AFP/AFP/Getty Images According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), at the African Black market, rhino horn sells for up to 60,000 USD (57,000 euros) per kilogram - more than gold or cocaine - and in the last eight years alone roughly a quarter of the world population has been killed in South Africa, home to 80 percent of the remaining animals. A caregiver calms Sudan, the last known male of the northern white rhinoceros subspecies, on December 5, 2016, at the Ol Pejeta conservancy in Laikipia County - at the foot of Mount Kenya - that is home to the planet's last-three northern white rhinoceros.Īs 2016 draws to an end, awareness of the devastation of poaching is greater than ever and countries have turned to high-tech warfare - drones, night-goggles and automatic weapons - to stop increasingly armed poachers.
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