Meet the vet dehorning rhinos to fight the poaching crisis
A veterinarian is helping save Africa’s endangered rhinos by removing their horns to deter poachers.
Dr. Chloe Buiting, 31, is a part of a team in South Africa working to combat the poaching crisis that has seen the rhino population devastated.
The country, which is home to 93% of the continent’s white rhinos and 39% of its critically endangered black rhinos, has been the epicenter of the crisis.
Since 2008, the poaching numbers have skyrocketed with 13 rhinos killed in 2007, 83 in 2008 and over 1,200 in 2014.
Dr Buiting, a wildlife veterinary from Kangaroo Island, Australia, said “Rhinos were being lost faster than they were reproducing.
Dr. Chloe Buiting, 31, is a part of a team in South Africa working to combat the poaching crisis that has seen the rhino population devastated.
The country, which is home to 93% of the continent’s white rhinos and 39% of its critically endangered black rhinos, has been the epicenter of the crisis.
Since 2008, the poaching numbers have skyrocketed with 13 rhinos killed in 2007, 83 in 2008 and over 1,200 in 2014.
Dr Buiting, a wildlife veterinary from Kangaroo Island, Australia, said “Rhinos were being lost faster than they were reproducing.
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