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Stop Rhino Poaching s Mobile Surveillance Unit.
Alaris Antennas, in a partnership with Hensoldt South Africa, is helping the non-governmental organisation Stop Rhino Poaching to curb the killing of these critically endangered animals.
Stop Rhino Poaching was established in 2010 as a response to the sudden and steep escalation in rhino poaching across South Africa. Since the start of the poaching epidemic in 2008 South Africa has lost over 8 600 rhinos – a figure that, despite much effort, increases daily.
Poachers seem to have the upper hand, Alaris Antennas said, as they know when to strike. Intelligence driven operations (knowing who, what, where, when and how) are the cornerstone elements to cracking the poaching syndicates.
Bringing color to conservation: a conversation with wildlife artist Morgan Richardson
Many of the visuals we’re used to seeing in conservation are ones of despair: forests being torn down for palm oil production, pangolins and rhinos being slaughtered for the scales and horns, blue glaciers calving into the ocean, fires destroying majestic trees, and vigils to environmental defenders slain for their efforts to protect the planet.
Morgan Lee Richardson, a Los Angeles-based artist, takes a different approach. He creates images of wildlife with shockingly bold colors. Richardson whose artwork has appeared widely from Disney to Nickelodeon to Thundershirts uses his “kick in the face” style to “introduce people to the amazing biodiversity of our planet.”
When Humans Drive Wildlife Extinction at 1,000-Times the Natural Rate 10/01/2021
On June 23, 2012, Ratu, one of the three adult female rhinos at Indonesia’s Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary, gave birth to a male calf. Photo: International Rhino Foundation/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
Humans are driving species to extinction 1,000 times faster than what is considered natural. Now, new research underscores the extent of the planet’s impoverishment.
Extinctions don’t just rob the planet of species but also of functional and phylogenetic diversity, the authors of a paper
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences argue. “They are much newer ideas than species richness, so not as much exploration has been done about patterns of decline in these two metrics, particularly globally,” said Jedediah Brodie, first author of the study and conservation biologist at the University of Montana.
Third white rhino calf born at The Wilds on Christmas Eve
Contributed to the Times Recorder
The Wilds
CUMBERLAND – There’s a baby boom of sorts happening at The Wilds and the team is buzzing with excitement as they celebrate the birth of a third white rhinoceros. The male calf was born on Dec. 24, in the rhinos’ large, heated barn. This calf is the 25th white rhino to be born at The Wilds.
The male calf and his mother, 16-year-old Zenzele, also born at The Wilds, are doing well. The calf appears to be strong and is nursing alongside his mother.