Rhino poaching in South Africa dipped slightly last year, but ‘crisis continues unabated,’ conservationists say

Mongabay
Jan 25, 2018, 3:06 pm205 pts
South African Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa announced in a press briefing today that 1,028 rhinos were illegally killed in the country in 2017. That figure represents a small decrease over 2016’s total of 1,054 illicit rhino killings. Booming demand for rhino horn in newly-affluent…

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