Fish and Wildlife Services, which is the agency that receives the trophy hunting permits, defended this type of conservation hunting, saying it actually benefits the species in the long-run.

'The black rhino once roamed most of sub-Saharan Africa, but today is on the verge of extinction due to poaching fueled by commercial demand for its horn.'

The horn is also valued in North Africa and the Middle East as an ornamental dagger handle,' National Geographic wrote. These programmes were largely financed by the game departments allowing certain individual males of the species that were too old to breed and were attacking younger. The rhino was last known to inhabit a mountainous region where darting and a live retrieval by helicopter was deemed either impractical or too costly. The hunt was an effort to eliminate an errant animal.

Both the black and white rhino occur in Africa and both species were saved from extinction by the carefully planned breeding and research programmes run by a variety of game departments, notably the one in Kwa Zulu Natal. The rhino hunt was at the request of what was at that time known as the NPB (Natal Parks Board). 'Many animals have been killed for the hard, hairlike growth, which is revered for medicinal uses in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Rhino hunting is an expensive business and only a relatively few hunters hunt this animal.

I found this awesome website which has a great compilation of challenges, research results and CTFs. However, the current population trend is increasing, according to National Geographic.īlack rhinos are known for their two horns, which can grow up to 5ft in length, and Nat Geo says those horns are the reason their lives are at risk from poachers. THE RHINO HUNTER 2 Simon Adler, the producer at Radiolab, in a podcast episode titled The Rhino Hunter, highlights the story of Corey Knowlton, a Texas native who gunned down an endangered black rhino after paying 350,000 at an auction, which granted him a hunting permit to Namibia where he committed the act. Rhino Hunt (Part 1) Lately I’ve been getting into digital forensics investigation and in order to train myself I’ve been looking for some challenges. The black rhinoceros, which can weigh anywhere from 1,760 to 3,080 pounds, is a critically endangers species.

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