Cutting off the animals’ horns, which costs a fraction of traditional protection methods, reduced illegal hunting by nearly 80%, say experts

Cutting off the animals’ horns, which costs a fraction of traditional protection methods, reduced illegal hunting by nearly 80%, say experts

We shouldn’t have to dehorn rhinos to keep them safe. The ideal is to let rhinos live as they should — horns and all. That’s the message from a Nelson Mandela University scientist…

Across South Africa, removing the the object of poachers’ desire reduced rhino deaths by 78 percent, while it raised the question: What is a rhino without its horns?