South Africa Anti-Poaching - In South Africa, rhino poaching has taken a toll and it grows every year. The authorities stopped two Vietnamese men who were taking a large amount of rhinoceros horns with them.
The Anti-Poaching campaign and operation aims at stopping the hunt of rhinoceros. A lot of people hunt the animals for their horns. They kill them, because the horns are valued at large prices.
In Johannesburg, South Africa, the police arrested the two suspects on Friday night at the airport. They came from Mozambique and were on their way to Vietnam, according to Fox News.
The bags they carried with them contained 90 pounds of rhino horns. This quantity would be worth an incredible fortune in the illegal market.
The authorities that stopped the men acted on a special anti-poaching cause. Ever since 2008, the rhinoceros are hunted non-stop and from 2010 approximately, many people are fighting to stop this.
One of the organizations is called Stop Rhino Poaching, and it estimated how many rhinoceros killings were performed per year.
In 2008, there were 83. In 2009, the quantity rose to 122. In 2010, the number was doubled and 333 took place. In 2011, more than a hundred more happened with 448. From that year to 2012, more than two hundred more rhinos were killed, 668.
In 2013, the alarming number of 1004 reached. And this year?
"Over 2,650 known rhino have been poached in South Africa in the last 6 years. There are only 18,900 white and 2,040 black rhinos left in South Africa, which is home to 74% of Africa's remaining rhino population."
Taking this into consideration, if the poaching continues its course of basically growing by a double on the last year's quantity, it won't be too long until the worse happens.
The extinction of the rhinoceros is not very far in a relation of years if this goes on. Catching two of the hunters is a start for the anti-poaching in South Africa to eventually help the animals live in peace.
