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The black market trade in rhino horns is driving the species to near extinction. Now, scientists at a rhino orphanage in the ...
Conservation scientists in South Africa are injecting rhino horns with radioactive isotopes. The doses are too weak to harm ...
A South African university has launched an anti-poaching campaign to inject the horns of rhinos with radioactive isotopes, ...
The process is safe and harmless to the animals, but will allow authorities to detect smuggled horns as they're transported ...
Before starting the project, the scientists ensured that these radioactive drugs were absolutely harmless to the animals.
Three Chinese men have been arrested for allegedly running a shop in Nha Trang where they sold rhino horns, elephant tusks, ...
Scientists have developed a safe way to embed radioactive markers in rhino horns, making them detectable and help combat ...
The number of critically endangered black rhinos has increased slightly, but there is bad news for other rhino species, ...
South Africa’s New Weapon Against Poachers | Vantage with Palki Sharma South Africa is taking a bold step to stop rhino ...
In an effort to combat the poaching of rhinos in South Africa, the Rhisotope Project is injecting radioactive isotopes into ...
Rhinos have long been a symbol of Africa’s wild beauty. But now, science is stepping in to protect them in a new way. A team ...
We speak with James Larkin, the head of a project in South Africa that's experimenting with using radiation to prevent rhino poaching. They sedate the animals and inject radiation into their horns.