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The government said that at least 56 of the animals had been killed by poachers in the past two years, marking the worst onslaught since Botswana’s black rhino population was wiped out in 1992 and the number of white rhinos dropped to just 27. Picture: iStock/ AOosthuizen
Thousands of existing sensors along international borders could be used to detect a small quantity of radioactive material inserted into the horns, according to a researcher
Besides Russia’s state-owned nuclear company Rosatom, the University of Witwatersrand, scientists and private rhino owners are involved in the project.
Poachers killed 394 rhinos in South Africa for their horns last year,
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