PHOTOS: Six rhinos dehorned at northern KZN reserve
Six white rhinos have been dehorned at the Somkhanda Game Reserve near Mkhuze in northern KwaZulu-Natal in an effort to reduce poaching incidents there.
Among the animals is a male rhino of about 6-years-old - undergoing its first dehorning procedure.
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A 13-year-old rhino that had survived a previous poaching attempt has also had its horn removed.
Conservationists at the reserve say they experienced their first poaching attack in four years last month.
A female black rhino was lost in that incident.
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David Gilroy of the Wildlands Conservation Trust says they are constantly revising their dehorning plans and anti-poaching strategies to increase the safety of the animals.
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A 13-year-old rhino that had survived a previous poaching attempt has also had its horn removed.
Conservationists at the reserve say they experienced their first poaching attack in four years last month.
A female black rhino was lost in that incident.
ALSO READ: Decrease in rhino poaching for 2018
David Gilroy of the Wildlands Conservation Trust says they are constantly revising their dehorning plans and anti-poaching strategies to increase the safety of the animals.
"We are carrying on with the dehorning technologies or procedures. We are looking at different collars we can put on the foot to prevent poaching from happening and to hopefully give us more time to allow for the population to grow to a point that it is doing well," he said.