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Remaining White Rhino Kills One of Last Two Poachers! 
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De-horning doesn't protect the rhino at all, because the poachers kill dehorned animals anyway so they don't spend hours tracking and killing a valueless target again......unfortunately.

 
That sucks.
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Link Did we hear whether these were "northern" or "southern"? I wonder if they're actually different or just differentiated based on distribution.
================ So whatever happened to the practice of cutting off rhinos' horns to make them worthless to poachers?
 
De-horning doesn't protect the rhino at all, because the poachers kill dehorned animals anyway so they don't spend hours tracking and killing a valueless target again......unfortunately.
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Coveting Horns, Ruthless Smugglers’ Rings Put Rhinos in the Cross Hairs
by Jeffrey Gettleman
The New York Times
December 31, 2012

The rhino horn rush has gotten so out of control that it has exploded into a worldwide criminal enterprise, drawing in a surreal cast of characters — not just Thai prostitutes, but also Irish gangsters, Vietnamese diplomats, Chinese scientists, veterinarians, copter pilots, antiques dealers and recently an American rodeo star looking for a quick buck who used Facebook to find some horns...

 
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