White Rhinoceros

“Black Rhinoceros”(www.bagheera.com) The Black Rhinoceros are not completely extinct, but it critical.The reason that the Black Rhino’s are being hunted is because of their horns. The horns on them are very valuable and can also be used for other things. There were 65,000 Black Rhino’s in 1970 and now almost 90 percent of them were killed. Now there is 2,500 left in the whole entire world. Their horns are packed with fibers that hold it together that make it strong. They have two horns instead of one and they can grow up to 20 inches (50cm). “Black Rhinoceros”(www.bagheera.com) The Black Rhino was being killed even more now because they are using their horns and turning them into daggers for money. The reason of that being because the amount of oil was decreasing fast. The two horns of one Black Rhinoceros would be up to $50,000. In 1993 the United States threaten to ban legal items of wildlife from China. Now China made it illegal to sell, buy,…

White Rhino BANG! A single gunshot rings through the park. The elephants stampede, demolishing exhibits, shops, smashing glass, crushing the expansive landscape. Teddy runs to the monorail to get a better view of the park. As he runs by the cage holding Rhonda, the white rhino, something glints in his eye. Teddy turns around mid-step to see a perfect bullet hole through the glass. Someone was out to get Rhonda, and, it was Teddy’s responsibility to find them. Poaching is not something just found…

desperate measures. If you think the measures to protect rhinos are crazy, wait until you find out why they're being poached. In Asia, rhino horn is turned to a powder with supposed magical and healing properties, e.g. it's an aphrodisiac and a sexual stimulant. The truth is that rhino horn has been proven to be as sexy as your hair strand or fingernail -- it's just keratin. But when a rhino dies every six hours in Africa, it's clear that we have to take this seriously and we don't have a…

Many of Africa’s most iconic animals are disappearing and could be gone within the next 50 years, but there are ways to stop it. Animals are hunted for valuable goods such as their fur, tusks, or horns. There is also a demand for live baby animals, such as gorillas. These babies can sell for up to 40, 000 dollars a gorilla. If the babies are taken away, the species can not repopulate when the adults die.The removal of their youth leaves gorillas critically endangered and possibly gone by 2020.…

before he gets too far away he returns to put a locator in the child’s teeth for future use and then escapes. This young boy finally wakes up to see a dead carcass of what used to be his mother and is totally distraught. Five years later, the implanted locator is triggered because the young son is now of age to be hunted. History is now repeating itself and the son will suffer the same fate as his mother. This brutal activity is actually happening in our world today but with animals like the…

Rhinoceros, written 1958, and published 1959 is one of Ionesco’s most popularized plays. It opens on a usual Sunday in a town, where abruptly a rhinoceros is sighted twice by the townspeople. Initially some wonderment is expressed about the strangeness of this happening, but eventually a great deal of discussion is devoted to whether the two sightings were of the same rhino or of two different ones, and whether the rhino(s) belonged to the African or Asian species. Soon it becomes evident that…

Since 2006, the tally on Africa’s rhino war stands at more than 1,000 poached rhinos, 22 poachers killed, and more than 200 poachers arrested (Sohrabian 2013:16). In an effort to alleviate the pressure on the species, some have proposed to legalize trade in rhinoceros horn. It is the belief of such advocates that “rangers and conservationists could win the war if rhino horns were farmed on a large scale” (Sohrabian 2013:16). Unlike elephants who die when their tusks are removed, rhinos can…

hunting expeditions have seen gangs turn grenades and AK-47s on entire herds, even within the supposed shelter of national parks. Other animals poaching is effecting are Rhino’s there horn was reported to be selling for $65,000 in 2012, making it more expensive by weight than gold, diamonds or cocaine. Illegal killings hit another record high at 393 in the 12 months leading up to April. Finding themselves faced with more and more mutilated rhino carcasses, horns sometimes hacked off while the…

research being conducted is to determine whether or not there is hope left to save the rhinos. The research will help conclude whether or not the public is aware of rhino poaching while at the same time informing the nation of rhino poaching. Literature Review Rhinos are mammals which occur in Africa, South America and parts of Asia. In South Africa there are two types of rhinos, the black and the white rhino. There are vast differences between black and white rhinos however…

Over spring break, I took a trip to Swaziland, Africa. One of the days I was there, I went on a safari ride. The people in my group and I were a little nervous about the ride just because there are some huge, scary animals out there. The first thing our tour guide said to us was, “Don’t worry about it, the safari car is very safe and the animals are used to people coming through here.” The car was pretty big, seating our whole group plus an experienced driver. It had four tall doors and a few…