Namibia, home to the only free-roaming Black Rhinos left in the world, holds almost a third of Africa’s Black Rhino population. It was the first country to use de-horning to discourage poachers from killing rhinos. Experience has shown however, that unless extensive anti-poaching security and monitoring efforts are in place, rhinos will continue to be poached regardless of whether they have been de-horned.
Rhino poaching is at a crisis point - in the last decade 9,415 African rhinos have been killed by poachers. The number of rhinos killed has gone up in the continent for six years in a row.
APRIL '24: 'Authorities in Namibia are investigating a surge in rhino poaching that has led to 28 being killed this year, two thirds of them in the flagship Etosha NP. Of the rhinos poached, 19 were 'critically endangered' Black Rhinos. No suspects have been arrested yet.'
