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How chopping off their horns helps save rhinos from poachers [1]

Armed with a dart gun in a helicopter hovering above Somkhanda game reserve in South Africa, the vet Dr Mike Toft has just shot a powerful cocktail of drugs into the massive white rhino below.

Publication Date: 
31/05/2018
Guardian (UK) [2]
Tags:
Wildlife [3], Poaching [4], Rhinoceros [5], South Africa [6], Africa [7], Wildlife Management [8]

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/guardian-uk
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wildlife
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/poaching
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rhinoceros
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/south-africa
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/africa
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wildlife-management