We call on the minister to ‘DO THE RIGHT THING’
Apr 15, 2021
4 minutes
Dr Peter Oberem
An estimated R2 billion is spent
annually in South Africa on
rhino protection and conservation.
The world has lived through a full year of the COVID-19 pandemic, being bombarded by bad news: more than 100 million people being infected; more than 2 million deaths, some close to home; the economic impacts of the disease and the lockdowns with concomitant job losses and unemployment.
One of the only bits of good news (together with the toppling of Trump ›› ) was the news of the fast-declining rhino poaching statistics as a result of the lockdown curfews. But the shocking revelations by the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF) in their annual report released in January 2021 is that this
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