New face for Hope the rhino
04 May 2016 - 09:30
Advanced anti-rhino poaching technology and techniques are driving a clandestine offshoot crime - the illegal sale of toxic drug concoctions by vets to poachers. Strong enough to kill a person within minutes, the drugs are often too weak to kill a rhino, which lies maimed as it bleeds to death with its horn hacked off.
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