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SOS Rhino
: In the News : Sudanese rebels poaching rare rhino close to extinction in raids into DRC |
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Sudanese rebels poaching rare rhino close to extinction in raids into DRC
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Cape Times
May 13, 2004
Kinshasha: Armed Sudanese rebels poaching in Congo have driven the world's last northern white rhinos to near-extinction.
If unchecked, they could wipe out the Garamba National Park's rhinos in months, said Henri Paul Eloma, co-ordinator of a United Nations project to protect wildlife from the effects of war in Congo. Rebels were shooting rhinos and elephants for their horns and tusks.
Fighters from a separate conflict in northern Sudan are also poaching in Garamba. - Reuters
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