Poaching to decimate rhino population in Botswana in a year or two – report
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Poaching to decimate rhino population in Botswana in a year or two – report

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01-29-2020
 

There are growing fears that the rhino population in Botswana will be completely decimated if poaching continues unabated in the southern African country, according to media reports.

A rhino coordinator at the department of wildlife and national parks, Mmadi Rueben was quoted by Xinhua news agency as saying that Botswana had been losing about a rhino a month to poaching, which has the potential of hurting Botswana's tourism sector.

At least two rhinos were poached within five days in the Okavango Delta.

 "If the poaching continues at this (alarming) rate, there will be no rhinos in Botswana in a year or two, especially the black rhino," said Rueben.

Less than 20 black rhinos are found in Botswana.

Rueben said black rhinos were still considered critically endangered with only around 4, 200 living in the world.

Meanwhile, the anti-poaching forces in Botswana are said to have put measures in place for the protection of rhinos and prioritizing the tracking of poaching syndicates.

Oxford, however, seems to have found a way to save the rhinos from extinction. Read about it on Monday, February 3 on our website.

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