Rhino Horns Fitted With GPS Trackers

The dart immobilized the animal and a small group of khaki-wearing game farmers, vets and others rushed in on small vehicles to blindfold the confused, stumbling animal.

They told us that covering the rhino's eyes and ears would lessen the trauma of what was to happen next.

The group of conservationists then began monitoring the rhino as someone drilled into the rhino's horn, using an electric drill powered by a generator sitting on the back of a pick-up truck.

They burrowed an eight centimeter hole, about an inch wide. Inside they embedded a silver canister and then plugged up the incision with putty and wrapped some masking tape over the rhino horn, like a make-shift bush bandage. Read the full report here.

Source: by Robyn Curnow, CNN, Mafikeng, South Africa.