In 2008 there were 88 confirmed rhino poaching deaths in Zimbabwe – 67 of these were critically endangered black rhinos. This is more than double the number of rhinos poached in 2007 and more than 15% of the country’s entire black rhino population.
Zimbabwe’s black rhino population was nearly wiped out by large-scale,
Rhino care staff in Zimbabwe
organized poaching in the 1980s, before making a remarkable recovery thanks to intense anti-poaching efforts. The country is now home to the fourth largest population of black rhinos in the world, but these rhinos are once again being poached relentlessly. Zimbabwe is one of the poorest and most unstable countries in the world. And due to the continuously deteriorating political and economic situation in Zimbabwe, there has been a dramatic upsurge in wildlife poaching.
For more information, please go to Zimbabwe’s black rhino population was nearly wiped out by large-scale, organized poaching in the 1980s, before making a remarkable recovery thanks to intense anti-poaching efforts. The country is now home to the fourth largest population of black rhinos in the world, but these rhinos are once again being poached relentlessly. Zimbabwe is one of the poorest and most unstable countries in the world. And due to the continuously deteriorating political and economic situation in Zimbabwe, there has been a dramatic upsurge in wildlife poaching.
For more information, please go to: http://www.rhinos-irf.org/crisis-zimbabwe/. For background on Houston Zoo’s involvement with rhino cosnervation: http://www.houstonzoo.org/Botswana/
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