– 09/15/14, 17:04 – Source: ANP
© AFP. A black rhino in a national park in Kenya.
The National Postcode Lottery has two million dollars (1.5 million euros) recovered from natural administrator Peace Parks Foundation (PPF) after a failed project to protect. Rhinos The South African billionaire Johann Rupert PPF chairman has announced.
The money was intended for new methods to counteract poaching as injecting the horns with dye or poison, but were found not to work.
“We are excited and been naive in our belief that injecting horns could help save “the rhino said Rupert. “When we discovered that it was not working as well as was initially claimed, we have the Dutch Postcode Lottery immediately informed.
in South Africa alone this year 638 rhinos poached. Particularly in Asia like the horns demand. Buyers believe they have medicinal properties.
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