Poachers in South Africa They killed more than 100 rhinos In the first three months of this year, Most of them within national parkshighlighting a continuous battle to protect one of the most known endangered species.
The Minister of Environment of South Africa, Dion Georgeannounced the figures on Monday and said that of the 103 Rhinoceros dead between January 1 and March 31, 65 were furtively hunted in national parks.
The average of more than one dead rhino is in line is in line with last year’s count and “It is a forceful reminder of the relentless threat to our wildlife”George said.
South Africa has the world’s largest rhinos population, with an estimated 16,000 to 18,000 animals, according to conservation groups. That includes black and white rhinos.
The black rhinoceros are only in the wild in Africa and are cataloged as critical danger of extinction, with around 6,400 remaining copies, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Around 2,000 are in South Africa.
The South African authorities have focused in recent years on the criminal networks they believe are behind much of the poaching of rhinos in the country.
The Ministry of Environment held a sentence last year of those who called a “leader” of Mozambique’s poaching. Simon Ernesto Valoi was sentenced to 27 years in prison by a Mozambique Court for directing a rhino -rhier poisted hunting operation in the huge Kuger National Park in South Africa, which limits with Mozambique.