Collection, Medicine Let Rhinoceros Horn "Priceless"

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The extant rhinoceros of the African continent, including the white rhino and black rhino, almost all located in southern Africa, South Africa, at the southern tip of Africa country is a front-line anti-rhino poaching. Smuggling rhino horn reaps a huge profit, driven by interests, poachers increasingly bold, increasingly sophisticated equipment, they are equipped with helicopters, night vision equipment, automatic weapons.

To combat the increasingly rampant rhino poaching, the South African government will soon put into use a state-of-the-art low-speed mute aircraft, monitoring suspicious activity wildlife parks and protected areas. This aircraft is named "Search", equipped with a mute engine, equipped with advanced heat sensors that detect terrestrial animal and human activities.

Endangered Causes

Human activities, climate change let rhinoceros "Fubeishoudi"

"Expand the scope of human activities, population pressure, been invisible changed rhino habitat." Jiang Zhigang said, "At present, in some parts of Africa, the population growth rate is high, when the human population over a certain range, and the inevitable incineration mountains, Tau, marshes and hills and lakeside reclamation, permanent destruction of their living environment, occupy a large area of ​​its habitat. "

Population pressure is low, the population living area with rhino populations survival Strip and white staggered distribution, the rhino just because direct killing and reduce. Habitat and areas of human staggered rhino will have to face more to survive an unbearable weight.

In addition, in Asia, agriculture and human settlement of rainforest destruction is substantially destroyed rhino habitat. Human occupied more and more forest land, rhino group, especially the Asian rhino separation, villages and farms. This leads to a very small part of the rhino group to live alone and inbreeding, the gene weaken and birth defects.

"In addition to the above points, the impact of...