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Cruel but "necessary": Can cutting off rhino horns — and selling them — help save rhinos?

Johan Marais spots a rhinoceros from a helicopter and shoots it with a tranquilizer dart. Another five minutes will pass before the rhino goes down. A team is ready on the ground to make sure the ...
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Cutting off rhinos' horns is a contentious last resort to stop poaching. A new study found it works

CAPE TOWN – Cutting off the horns of sedated rhinos with a chainsaw has been viewed by wildlife conservationists in Africa for more than 30 years as a necessary evil to save the iconic endangered ...
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Cutting off rhinos’ horns last resort to stop poaching

A de-horned rhino and her calf rest in their corral at a rhino orphanage in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game Reserve in the KwaZulu Natal province South Africa on Feb. 15, 2016. CAPE TOWN, South Africa — ...
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Cutting off rhinos’ horns is a contentious last resort to stop poaching. A new study found it works

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Cutting off the horns of sedated rhinos with a chainsaw has been viewed by wildlife conservationists in Africa for more than 30 years as a necessary evil to save the ...