active 4 unit 11 chap 1

Rhino wars

This chapter is about rhinos ho and different information about it.

Two type of rhino species:

Although the range of two species, the white and black rhino, has been reduced primarily to southe Africa and Kenyan, their populations had shown the improvement. In 2007 white rhinos numbered 17470, and the number of black rhinos had doubled 4230.

The nice triumph for conservationists:

For consevationists these numbers represented a triumph. In the 1970s and 80s poaching rhinos had devastated two types of this species. Then china baed hunting this species from traditional medicine, and yemen forbade its use of hos in ceremonial knife handle. But in 2008 the numbers of poaching rhinos in south Africa shot up to 83 from just 13 in 2007.

The Vietnam rhinos:

Javan rhinos roamed in Vietnams forests. Catien park in southe Vietnam protected this special species and it was established in 1993. The Vietnams govement had tried to prevent this species from death.in 2010 the body of what many believe to be the last wildlife rhino in Vietnam was found.

Two things which cause the problem of poaching rhinos:

Many people hunted them because of two things: the prices, the cost of rhinos ho was really expensive as some people pay for a gram about 133 dollars it means more than a gram gold. Another factor is that people especially the Asian since 2000 years use as medicine. They claimed that its good for reducing fever and treat a range of illness. But researchers found that this cause the cancer.