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A Malaysian Wildlife official displays seized rhino horns and other animal parts (Getty)
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rosecutors, police officers, international airlines and even diplomats in South East Asia have been working with criminal gangs to smuggle millions of pounds worth of endangered rhino horns through border crossings so they can go on to reach customers in China and Vietnam.
In turn, their participation in this already thriving criminal enterprise is strengthening corruption, under-mining governance along the supply chain and weakening security for affected communities.
The annihilation of the rhino by organised groups is deadly and stealthy but the complicit governments, lax laws and the corporate officers facilitating the trade are worsening the crisis.
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Written by Guy Martin -
Stop Rhino Poaching s Mobile Surveillance Unit.
Alaris Antennas, in a partnership with Hensoldt South Africa, is helping the non-governmental organisation Stop Rhino Poaching to curb the killing of these critically endangered animals.
Stop Rhino Poaching was established in 2010 as a response to the sudden and steep escalation in rhino poaching across South Africa. Since the start of the poaching epidemic in 2008 South Africa has lost over 8 600 rhinos – a figure that, despite much effort, increases daily.
Poachers seem to have the upper hand, Alaris Antennas said, as they know when to strike. Intelligence driven operations (knowing who, what, where, when and how) are the cornerstone elements to cracking the poaching syndicates.
When Humans Drive Wildlife Extinction at 1,000-Times the Natural Rate 10/01/2021
On June 23, 2012, Ratu, one of the three adult female rhinos at Indonesia’s Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary, gave birth to a male calf. Photo: International Rhino Foundation/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
Humans are driving species to extinction 1,000 times faster than what is considered natural. Now, new research underscores the extent of the planet’s impoverishment.
Extinctions don’t just rob the planet of species but also of functional and phylogenetic diversity, the authors of a paper
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences argue. “They are much newer ideas than species richness, so not as much exploration has been done about patterns of decline in these two metrics, particularly globally,” said Jedediah Brodie, first author of the study and conservation biologist at the University of Montana.