The vanishing rhino

Illegal killing of African rhinos is on the rise with at least 745 poached last year and over two a day being shot by poachers so far this year. A leading rhino expert told The Associated Press that the last rhino in the southern African nation of Mozambique has been killed and poachers have wiped out the last of the rhinos in that region.

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Photo By Jon Hrusa, IFAW, File Thu, May 2, 2013 10:53 AM EDT

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FILE - In this undated photo supplied by International Fund For Animal Welafre (IFAW), orphaned black rhinos square up after their release into a holding boma at Addo National Park, 50 miles north-east of Port Elizabeth, South Africa after each was abandoned at birth. Mozambique's rhinoceros population was wiped out more than a century ago by big game hunters. Reconstituted several years ago, it has again been driven to extinction, or to the ... more
FILE - In this undated photo supplied by International Fund For Animal Welafre (IFAW), orphaned black rhinos square up after their release into a holding boma at Addo National Park, 50 miles north-east of Port Elizabeth, South Africa after each was abandoned at birth. Mozambique's rhinoceros population was wiped out more than a century ago by big game hunters. Reconstituted several years ago, it has again been driven to extinction, or to the brink of extinction, by poachers seeking their horns for sale in Asia. (AP Photo/Jon Hrusa, IFAW, File) less

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