'Rhino Poachers' Shot Dead In South Africa

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First published in Sanctuary Asia, Vol. 31 No. 1, January 2011

 

Park officials say that three suspects were killed in a shootout with police in the Pretoriuskop area of the Kruger National Park on Tuesday.

 

Another two were killed near the border with Mozambique on Saturday.

 

In 2010, 333 rhinos were shot in South Africa for their horns, which are sold in the black market for medicine and aphrodisiacs in Asia. Read the full report here.

 

Source: BBC News, Africa.

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