Radioactive Rhinoceros Horns May Deter Poaching A Texas A&M doctoral student and the Rhisotope Project team up to use radioisotopes to protect endangered rhinos from poachers.

🦏 Congrats to Dr. Craig Marianno & Jordan Hillis on their #wildlife #conservation work! Their Rhisotope Project was featured on PBS NewsHour.

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Zuid-Afrika zet radioactieve verklikker in tegen neushoornstroperij Natuurbescherming: Zuid-Afrikaanse wetenschappers willen met een radioactieve merker in de hoorns van wilde neushoorns de illegale handel in hoorns tegengaan.

James Larkin ziet het Rhisotope-project als een minder ingrijpend alternatief. „Het is goedkoper dan onthoornen, en veel minder belastend voor het dier omdat het zijn hoorn mag behouden.” Jelka Pospig

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Conservationists Go Nuclear to Save the Rhino — Manuela Hoelterhoff Conservationists in South Africa this week ramped up their fight to stop poachers with a new tactic: injecting rhino horns with radioactive isotopes. The implants do not harm the rhinos, but they will...

Conservationists in South Africa this week ramped up their fight to stop poachers with a new tactic: injecting rhino horns with radioactive isotopes. #RhisotopeProject #rhinos #conservation #IAEA #WitsUniversity #SouthAfrica
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South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand has introduced a groundbreaking anti-poaching method called the Rhisotope Project — injecting low-level radioactive isotopes into rhino horns to make them detectable during illegal transport.

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Two rhinos graze side by side A rhino, front, recovers from a tranquiiizer after having radioactive isotopes injected into its horn at a rhino orphanage in the country's northern province of Limpopo on June 25, 2024. (Denis Farrell/The Associated Press)

Scientist James Larkin performs the isotope procedure. (Denis Farrell/The Associated Press)

Researchers have started the final phase of a research project aimed at reducing rhino poaching by inserting radioisotopes into rhino horns to devalue one of the most highly trafficked wildlife commodities. (Denis Farrel/The Associated Press)

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Scientists in South Africa are making rhino horns radioactive to fight poaching
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