100,000 Tons with 88 Combat Drones: Meet China's "Luanniao" Space Aircraft Designed to Fly over Any Target on Earth China just revealed plans for a 120,000-ton flying aircraft carrier that deploys 88 drone fighters from the edge of space.

Not a "Star Trek" future of hope and exploration. No, war slaves and combat monkeys, that is the entire scope #China is capable of.
For a future thousands of years old, the remain such children.
#RhinoHorn
indiandefencereview.com/china-luanni...

Namibia in 1989 pioneered de-horning #rhinos so that poachers were not able to kill them for the horns

Fast-forward 2025, it proposed lifting of the #rhinohorn trade ban & was defeated by majority @ #CITES meet

Read my piece to find out what changed: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Straight to the Point: Trimming Rhino Horn as an Anti-Poaching Intervention | WorkingAbroad Trimming rhino horn remains one of the most contentious anti-poaching strategies employed within wildlife conservation, but what's right?

Read Gemma Howard-Vyse's latest blog on rhino horn trimming, with arguments for and against this interesting tactic explored in depth in this wonderful article.

www.workingabroad.com/blog/straigh...

#iamworkingabroad #dehorningrhinos #rhinohorn #worldissues #conervationissues #wildlifeconservation

South Africa’s scaly trade in pangolins - Oxpeckers An undercover investigation exposes South Africa’s growing role in illicit transnational pangolin smuggling. Will the ban on trade by CITES make any difference? Special report by Hazel Friedman &…

#TBT 2016: South Africa was exposed as a hub for illicit transnational pangolin smuggling. Meanwhile, the complex politics of rhino horn trade dominated CITES discussions.
See how we unravelled the trade networks: oxpeckers.org/2016/09/sas-scaly-trade-in-pangolins
#Pangolins #RhinoHorn

#MondayMotivation #MotivationMonday #MotivationalQuote #QuoteOfTheDay #WorldRhinoDay #PaulOxton #Rhino #Rhinos #Rhinoceros #StateOfTheRhino #SouthAfrica #RhinoHorn #Wildlife #InternationalRhinoFederation #BlackRhino #WhiteRhino #SaveTheRhino #Species #Endangered #poaching #IUCN #RedList #Wildlife #Nature #Conservation #SDG15 #ConservationTravel #Impact #Travel #EarthChangers

🦏 #MotivationMonday: Happy #WorldRhinoDay!

“No one in the world needs a #RhinoHorn but a #Rhino.”~ #PaulOxton, Founder/CEO of a #wildlife foundation & #photographer.

🦏 Your #travel can help!

🦏 Learn more #rhinos: www.earth-changers.com/purpose/the-...

Ever seen #rhinoceros in the wild?

#SDG15

#MondayMotivation #MotivationMonday #MotivationalQuote #QuoteOfTheDay #WorldRhinoDay #PaulOxton #Rhino #Rhinos #Rhinoceros #StateOfTheRhino #SouthAfrica #RhinoHorn #Wildlife #InternationalRhinoFederation #BlackRhino #WhiteRhino #SaveTheRhino #Species #Endangered #poaching #IUCN #RedList #Wildlife #Nature #Conservation #SDG15 #ConservationTravel #Impact #Travel #EarthChangers

🦏 #MondayMotivation: “No one in the world needs a #RhinoHorn but a #Rhino”~ #PaulOxton, #Founder/CEO of #Wild Heart #Wildlife Foundation & photographer, #SouthAfrica

🦏 Happy #WorldRhinoDay!

What's the #StateOfTheRhino? 🦏
www.earth-changers.com/purpose/the-...
#InternationalRhinoFederation

In ‘What on Earth?’ EIA UK Senior Wildlife Campaigner Linh Nguyen and EIA US Senior Wildlife Policy Analyst Taylor Tench discuss the main findings of our new report
Listen now at https://loom.ly/8caQdQY
#Vietnam #illegalwildlifetrade #poaching #elephants #ivory #rhinos #rhinohorn #pangolins

Our latest report shows how Angola has become a key hotspot on a criminal highway which is funnelling elephant ivory and rhino horns from Africa to Vietnam.

Report at https://loom.ly/7VguO80

#Vietnam #Asia #Angola #Africa #elephants #ivory #rhinos #rhinohorn #pangolins #illegalwildlifetrade

Read the new report at eia-international.org/.../vietnam-...
#Vietnam #Africa #elephants #ivory #rhinos #rhinohorn #pangolins #illegalwildlifetrade

Transnational Rhino Horn Trafficking Syndicate Arrested | News Six individuals have been arrested on suspicion of international trafficking of more than 960 rhino horns in South Africa.

🦏 📣 John Hume, the big name in rhino breeding & calls for legalisation of #RhinoHorn trade has been arrested for smuggling. Demonstrates the complex inter-relations btwn legal & illegal wildlife trades. #IWT #GreenCollarCrime
Detailed piece from Save The Rhino ⬇️ www.savetherhino.org/africa/six-m...

BREAKING: Former owner of the world's largest rhino conservation farm John Hume has been granted R100K bail after being arrested for allegedly running an international rhino horn trafficking syndicate that moves rhino horns from South Africa targeting markets […]

[Original post on mastodon.africa]

#rhinohorn trafficking

South Africa starts injecting rhino horns with radioactive material to curb poaching A South African university launched an anti-poaching campaign on Thursday to inject the horns of rhinos with radioactive isotopes that it said were harmless for the animals but which can be detected b...

#southafrica #rhino #rhinohorn #radioactive

AP:

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Giant Rats: Sniffing Out Wildlife Crime | Wild Targets MOROGORO, Tanzania – Rats have long been misunderstood, often seen as pests rather than pals. However, the African giant pouched rat, the largest in the world, possesses special qualities that have ca...

The new detectives: smart, smell, size. These three capabilities make giant rats incredibly efficient in fighting wildlife crime. #CITES #ElephantIvory #RhinoHorn #PangolinScales

Je vous présente la nouvelle égérie Rhino Horn ❤️
youtube.com/shorts/J4Thx...
Le meilleur traitement du rhume, c'est le lavage de nez
#RhinoHorn

12 rhinos found dead in five months: CNP ⚰️ #nepal #poaching #rhinohorn #extinction myrepublica.nagariknetwork.com/news/12-rhin...

Dismantling the poachernomics of the illegal wildlife trade Persistent poaching fuelled by demand for elephant ivory and rhino horn continues to threaten these species. Despite international trade restrictions …

Dismantling the #poachernomics of the illegal wildlife trade www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#wildlifetrade #poaching #ivory #rhinohorn

@ediminin.bsky.social

Banksy down the road from me, not sure what it ‘means’… Southeast London is fucked?
#rhinohorn #southbanksy

We have to face the fact that anti-poaching tactics have mostly failed. We need to change how we tackle the problem www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000... #poachernomics #poaching #illegalwildlifetrade #rhinohorn #elephantivory

Neo-colonialist attitudes ignoring poachernomics will ensure more extinctions

#Poachernomics. Clearly we've been doing something heinously wrong conservationbytes.com/2022/01/14/neo-coloniali... #organisedcrime #rhinohorn #elephantivory #illegalwildlifetrade #poaching #neocolonialism

Illegal markets for #ivory & (especially) #rhinohorn share a fundamental characteristic with markets where bans typically fail — inelastic supply & demand (e.g., narcotics) — bans typically undermined by corruption; regulation with taxation is preferred https://t.co/bxQZhKEmjE

Our new #OpenAccess paper in Biological Conservation: ' Dismantling the #poachernomics of the illegal wildlife trade’ (and yes, we did invent that word) http://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109418 @MaxiPiaLouis1 @tSasRolfes @CITES #rhino #elephant #ivory #rhinohorn

Social Media Slaughter Social media and e-commerce sites are the new battlegroun...

OMG, who wants some #RhinoHorn? Social media's new role in the illegal wildlife trade. http://on.nrdc.org/1E9bpyl via @onEarthMag

Please #China stop the flow of #ivory and #rhinohorn into your country - be leaders on this