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Pilot program to use radioactive rhino horns

Researchers are working on a pilot program backed by Russia’s Rosatom Corp. to inject rhino horns with radioactive material, a tactic that could discourage consumption and make it easier to detect illegal trade. ....

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Russian nuclear agency Rosatom backs anti-poaching bid to make SA rhino horns radioactive


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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Rhino horns will be injected with RADIOACTIVE material under South African anti-poaching plan

Rhinos horns - prized in traditional medicine as a means of curing various ailments - could be injected with radioactive material in a bid to tackle illegal poaching in South Africa. ....

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Radioactive Rhino Horns Set to Add to Anti-Poaching Arsenal


Radioactive Rhino Horns Set to Add to Anti-Poaching Arsenal
May 23 2021, 3:24 PM
May 23 2021, 10:30 AM
May 23 2021, 3:24 PM
(Bloomberg)
(Bloomberg)
Researchers are working on a pilot program backed by Russia’s Rosatom Corp. to inject rhino horns with radioactive material, a tactic that could discourage consumption and make it easier to detect illegal trade.
Poachers killed 394 rhinos in South Africa for their horns last year, government data shows, with public and private game reserves lacking the resources needed to monitor vast tracts of land and protect the animals that live there. While the toll was a third lower than in 2019 and the sixth straight drop, illegal hunting remains the biggest threat to about 20,000 of the animals in the country the world’s biggest population. ....

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