LEAD SA

[Roger Munitich]

Rhino alive and celebrated by kids on farm then

Dead the next week

Please email John Robbie on j...@702.co.za and tell him that you are an eblockwatch member who pledges to rid South Africa of Rhino poachers.

Faan Coetzee heads up the Rhino poaching unit and eblockwatch members would like to assist him track down poachers. John Robbie would like South Africans to get behind Lead SA. The International Rhino Foundation on Monday said the levels of rhino poaching experienced in South Africa are the highest seen in 15 years.

More than 150 rhinos have been killed across the country so far this year, their horns hacked off and sold to syndicates smuggling them to the Far East.

The foundation’s Susie Ellis said the growing grip of Asian syndicates in southern Africa is linked to booming business contracts.

She said the solution lies in the police fighting the syndicates at their level of sophistication, firmer prison sentences for those arrested and better education for those buying the horns.

Ellis said the community needs to get involved in the war against poachers.

“We only get one shot to save these species and we have to deal with this immediately,” she said.

DIFFERENT APPROACH NEEDED

The Endangered Wildlife Trust said new ideas were needed to stop the scourge in South Africa.

The trust is launching a new forum this month in the Groblersdal area which will see farmers share information and link up with the police.

Faan Coetzee heads up the Rhino Security Project and described the deaths of more than 150 rhinos this year as "horrific".

 

“What we’re working with is organized crime of the highest order. We need a different approach to this whole problem,” said Coetzee.

sms save to 38319 for a R10 donation to The Endangered Wildlife Trust 

 

Faan Coetzee

Project Executant - Rhino Security Project

Endangered Wildlife Trust

Law & Policy Programme

082 563 0402 Fax number: 086 531 8808 Skype: faancoetzee

fa...@ewt.org.za

www.ewt.org.za

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