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      A file picture shows a rhinoceros grazing in a nature reserve in South Africa in 2010. Three young Mozambican poachers will spend 25 years behind bars after they were found with two fresh rhino horns in South Africa's Kruger Park, the national parks agency said Wednesday.
      Bulletin: Mozambican trio get 25 years in S.Africa for rhino poaching

      Bulletin: Mozambican trio get 25 years in S.Africa for rhino poaching

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      A 2010 photo shows a bird sitting on the head of a white rhino at Kruger National Park, South Africa. South Africa announced it was beefing up the number of rangers in the world-renowned Kruger National Park after an alarming jump in the number of rhinos slain by poachers for their horns.
      Bulletin: S.Africa boosts efforts to protect Kruger rhinos

      Bulletin: S.Africa boosts efforts to protect Kruger rhinos

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      A ranger on night patrol in South Africa's Kruger National Park in 2011. Authorities have killed two suspected poachers, arrested two others and found 11 rhino carcasses in the same area of South Africa's Kruger National Park in one week, a spokesman said Thursday.
      Bulletin: South African rangers kill poachers in Kruger park

      Bulletin: South African rangers kill poachers in Kruger park

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      A rhinoceros crosses a road inside Kruger National Park, some 60 km from Nelspruit in South Africa, June 2010. Eight dehorned rhino carcasses have been found in South Africa's Kruger National Park, in a poaching attack blamed on gunmen who slipped across the Mozambican border, a park spokesman said Wednesday.
      Bulletin: Eight dead rhinos found in S. Africa's Kruger

      Bulletin: Eight dead rhinos found in S. Africa's Kruger

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      Rhinoceros graze in the private Rhino and Lion Nature Reserve in, 2010 in Krugersdorp, north of Johannesburg. More than 80% of Africa's rhino population are found in South Africa.
      Bulletin: South African rhinos survive poaching attempt

      Bulletin: South African rhinos survive poaching attempt

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      Wildlife group WWF said that rhino poaching in South Africa has hit a new record high, with 341 of the animals lost to poachers so far this year as black-market demand for rhino horn soars.
      Bulletin: South Africa rhino poaching hits record: WWF

      Bulletin: South Africa rhino poaching hits record: WWF

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      A badly injured white rhino lies in a hollow after poachers sawed off its horn on Aquila Game Reserve in Touws River, north of Cape Town, August 2011. South Africa could ban rhino trophy hunting if other efforts to curb poaching fail, the environment minister said Wednesday.
      Bulletin: SAfrica may suspend rhino trophy hunts: minister

      Bulletin: SAfrica may suspend rhino trophy hunts: minister

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      Locals look at elephants in Livingstone , Zambia, 2006. Poachers in Zimbabwe have poisoned watering holes in five game reserves, killing elephants whose tusks were removed from their carcasses, the parks authority said on Tuesday.
      Bulletin: Zimbabwe says poachers poison wildlife water holes

      Bulletin: Zimbabwe says poachers poison wildlife water holes

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      A rhinocero grazes in the private Rhino and Lion Nature Reserve in Krugersdorp, north of Johannesburg, in 2010. A South African game reserve has developed a treatment for rhino horns that is safe for the animals but causes convulsions and headaches to people who consume them, a wildlife group said Wednesday.
      Bulletin: In S.Africa poaching fight, chemical makes rhino horns toxic

      Bulletin: In S.Africa poaching fight, chemical makes rhino horns toxic

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      South Africa is investigating dehorning its rhino population and stopping legal trophy hunts to fight a poaching crisis that has killed 279 animals this year.
      Bulletin: S.Africa may dehorn rhinos, ban hunts to stop poaching

      Bulletin: S.Africa may dehorn rhinos, ban hunts to stop poaching

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