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DRASTIC action has been carried out to help protect critically endangered black rhinos from poachers. Due to a recent spike in poaching for rhino horn, WWF, Kenya Wildlife Service and Narok County Government have joined forces to carry out an extensive operation to help protect black rhinos from being killed for their horns, in the Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. In some parts of Asia, rhino horn is illegally sold as a perceived remedy for a number of ailments – from hangovers to cancer – and is also often seen as a status symbol. And after losing 96 per cent of the population in Africa between 1970 and 1992, and another surge in the illegal wildlife trade in recent years, new measures are being taken. In February 2016, the team of KWS vets and Narok County rangers carried out a complex operation to fix transmitters on 40 black rhino by drilling into their horns, out of the 54 that are currently found within the reserve.
Videographer / director: WWF-UK
Producer: Crystal Chung, Nick Johnson
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This may sound weird but black rhinos have always been my absolute favorite animal. I used to want one as a pet when I was a kid.
WWF try to legalize ? horns business that's why they do this in Africa
I hate you guys
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WHAT IS WRONG WITH HUMANS!
Cada os brasileiros aqui heim?
Stop it???
And now they are extinct….
But there still cutting off it horn
bad
Gracias por cuidar a estos hermosos animales, la tarea es del mundo entero!
How would the rhinos try to defend themselves from wild animals if you cut of its horns while attaching the tracker? i dont see the sense in that.
guys we should donate to save them
i thought black rhino is extinct ?
I hope every poacher burns in a fire
Why did they saw his horn off?
the hunters that extinct animals are NOT humans they are LIFE destroyers
Hate hate hate ??????????????????????????????
MAJMUNI JEBEM VAM MATER
Capture a poacher torture and kill him and make an example
Oh… It's the white rhinos poachers hunted to near extinction. I thought it was this breed of rhino…
Still, wait…. Poachers are killing rhinos for Thier horns… But the horns grow back? Couldn't those poachers just sedate a rhino and shave bits of the horn off? Why would the need to kill them at all? A trophy mount?
Fucking poachers we should have killed you instead of rhinos
WWF = World Wrestling Faderation
stopping the market by putting sanctions in place against countries importing and selling animal parts is really what is needed to force them to do something about sales of animal parts in their individual countries… and education that the stupid ideas that rhino horns are NOT going to help humans in anyway used as a medicine or health product.. its all a myth
Death sentance for poachers
That is so mean!!!!!! I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE ARE BEING MEAN TO ANIMALS AND KILLING ANIMALS!!!!!!!!???????
I hate how people favor some animal lives over other…
Why don't they just clone them?
These guys have the right idea, tranquilize the rhinos and take their horns as they grow so that poachers won't have a reason to kill them. The whole point is to keep them alive to increase the rhino population. The same thing is happening with elephants. Unfortunately, just like with drugs, if there is a high demand for the product, and people are willing to pay big money for it, the poaching will continue. Just like with China and all of the illegal animal parts they buy and use thinking it has medicinal purposes. Like with their killing of whales, dolphins, Tigers and such, disgusting! I hate to think that there may be a day when we will no longer see a rhino, whale, dolphin, or elephant in the wild because of such ignorant, greedy people. ??
Just relocate them in a private land with like 5 miles
The fact that they have saw off the horn to keep it alive is sad. Humans that were caught preaching and any buyers, should be shot. We don't need these types in the world.
God the comments in this video are mind boggling.