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Poachers killed 100 rhinoceros in South Africa in slaughter surge

A black dehorned rhinoceros is followed by a calf in August 2012 at the Bona Bona Game Reseve, 200 kms southeast of Johannesburg. Poachers have killed 100 rhinoceros in South Africa in less than two months, a surge in killings that took the tally for the year to 381, authorities said.

Poachers have killed 100 rhinoceros in South Africa in less than two months, a surge in killings that took the tally for the year to 381, authorities said Wednesday. More than half of the animals were killed in the world-famous Kruger National Park with the rate of the slaughter likely…

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Rhinoceros head stolen from French museum

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BLOIS, France — Thieves stole a rhinoceros head from a museum in France, the latest in a string of raids thought to be fuelled by an international trade, police and museum sources said on Monday. Staff at the natural history museum in Blois, 160 kilometres (100 miles) southwest of Paris,…

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