Reducing Asia’s hunger for rhino horn

Mongabay
Mar 9, 2017, 4:12 am141 pts
More than 1,350 rhinoceroses were killed for their horns in 2015 alone. The majority of these killings took place in Africa, where 1,342 were killed. Asia, too, saw 24 of its greater one-horned rhinos succumb to poaching that year, all in India. While countries like South Africa, Namibia, and to a lesser extent…

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