Analysis - With all the terrible news on climate change, it's easy to lose track of what's happening with particular species. So, in case you missed it, a new report has bad news for Earth's five surviving species of rhino.
farm at Klerksdorp, near Johannesburg in South Africa, previously owned by South African businessman John Hume.
African Parks plans to release the total Platinum Rhino ranch population, currently 2,000 rhino , into the wild across Africa. That is good news. As an ecologist, I don't see the point in conserving a wild species to keep in captivity. Wildlife belongs in the wild. Hume's plan to buy up and breed farmed rhino might have allowed him to sell horns for a profit once legal international trade was permitted. But thatThe international ban on trading rhino horn, enacted by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species , has held firm, despiteand others. These critics were joined by some conservationists who believe that the best or only way to save rhino is by legalising the trade in their horns.
Hume continued to expand his private rhino farm and used his increasing rhino population as leverage in his
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