Rhinos are known by all as endangered, every species of rhino is declining at a growing rate. It has recently ben found that more than three rhinos a month are being killed and that number is slowly increasing, whic is pushing rhino poaching to a fifteen year high. In more Asian areas rhinos are being killed for only their horns, which are thought to have a medicinal value by certain Asian communities, which is completely false. Ideas passed down from generation to generation seem to say that the rhino horn can cure any sickness, or disease, even aids. These ideas explain the sudden resurgence in rhino poaching but even when confronted about the rhino horn having no aid or medicinal value the same Asian communities still seem to want it.
I personally believe more education should be brought to the areas where rhino poaching takes place to inform that there is no real value in the horns, and that the horns do not grow back. In some povertey stricken places and developing nations it is believed that the horns grow back. Something needs to happensoon to help these rhinos, because at this growing rate they will all be gone soon!
http://www.globalissues.org/article/177/nature-and-animal-conservation#DecliningNumberofRhinos
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