Namibian authorities concerned about increase in rhino poaching
Namibian authorities say poachers killed 87 rhinos last year, almost double the number killed in 2021 in a country that is home to the world's largest free roaming black rhino population. Conservationists say poachers seeking rhino horns for Asian markets are targeting Namibia's commercial farms. Simson Uri-Khob, chief executive officer of the Save the Rhino Trust, told VOA there have been almost no incidents of rhino poaching in Namibia's rhino conservancies for the past 30 months. He said, however, that poaching is a major concern in the more than 2-million-hectare Etosha National Park and on commercial farms where rhinos serve as tourist attractions. He said the last poaching on the communal land in the conservancies was in 2020 during the pandemic lockdown.
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