{"id":38304,"date":"2020-07-31T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/south-africa-cuts-rhino-poaching-by-half-minister\/"},"modified":"2020-07-31T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T18:12:00","slug":"south-africa-cuts-rhino-poaching-by-half-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/south-africa-cuts-rhino-poaching-by-half-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"#South Africa cuts rhino poaching by half: minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#South Africa cuts rhino poaching by half: minister<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n Rhino poaching in South Africa fell by half in the first six months of 2020, in part because a coronavirus lockdown made it harder to get around
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The number of South African rhinos killed by poachers fell by half in the first six months of the year, but 166 were slaughtered nonetheless, the environment minister said Friday.<\/p>\n

And the number of incidences has begun to edge higher again as coronavirus lockdown measures are eased, she added in a statement.<\/p>\n

“During the first six months of 2019, 316 rhino had been poached in South Africa,” said Barbara Creecy, the minister of environment, forestry and fisheries.
\nThe figure represents a drop of nearly 53 percent.
\n“We have been able to arrest the escalation of rhino losses,” Creecy claimed.
\nSouth Africa has for years battled a scourge of rhino poaching fuelled by insatiable demand for their horns in Asia.
\nMost of the demand emanates from China and Vietnam, where the horn is coveted as a traditional medicine, an aphrodisiac or a status symbol.
\nThe ministry attributed its success in slowing the rate of poaching to a decade of various strategies and supply chain disruptions that stemmed from national travel<\/a> restrictions during a national coronavirus lockdown.
\nThe famed Kruger National Park reported that 88 rhino had been killed during the first six months of 2020.
\nBut Creecy warned that since lockdown restrictions have been gradually lifted and game<\/a> parks reopened, so too has rhino poaching slowly increased.
\nIn the three months from when a lockdown was implemented on March 27 until the end of June, 46 rhinos were killed across the country, she said.
\nRhino horn is composed mainly of keratin, the same substance as in human fingernails.
\nIt is normally sold in powdered form and touted as a cure for cancer and other diseases.<\/p>\n

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\n \u00a9 2020 AFP<\/p>\n

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