“Operation Crash,” is a multi-agency effort to investigate and prosecute those involved in the black market trade of endangered rhinoceros horn according to the US department of Fish and Wildlife.
Seven people have been arrested on charges of trafficking in endangered black rhinoceros horn over the past week in Los Angeles, Newark, N.J., and New York, the Department of Justice and Department of the Interior announced today (Feb 23, 2012).
Special agents of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) made the arrests and have executed search warrants in five different states as part of “Operation Crash,” a multi-agency effort to investigate and prosecute those involved in the black market trade of endangered rhinoceros horn.
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Below is an interview with USFWS Director Dan Ashe and USFWS Law Enforcement Chief William C. Woody about recent rhino law enforcement investigation and arrests.
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Monday, February 27, 2012
Spike in rhino poaching threatens survival of species
By Meghan Frank and Jessica Hopper, Rock Center
In South Africa, home to three quarters of the last remaining rhinos on the planet, conservationists, private game reserve owners and security forces are waging a desperate battle against poachers intent on killing the country’s rhinos for their lucrative horns.
“It is an epidemic. It’s a war that right now we’re losing,” Graeme Rushmere said. “It’s not a South African issue as such, it’s really a global issue.”
Rushmere owns Kariega Game Reserve, a nearly 25,000 acre private reserve. The reserve is home to critically endangered black rhinos and white rhinos.
Rhinos have roamed the Earth for millions of years, but at the turn of the twentieth century there were only about 50 white rhinos left in the world. All were in South Africa. Over the course of several decades, South Africans brought the white rhino back from the brink of extinction. Through incredible conservation work, there are almost 20,000 white rhinos today. The recent spike in poaching has South Africans worried that all of their hard work to save the rhino will be reversed.
Just a decade ago, only about a dozen rhinos were poached each year. Last year, poachers killed more than 400 rhinos.
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Monday, February 6, 2012
The Plight of the Rhino, 2012
Another incredibly moving short film put together by Ogilvy to highlight the plight of the rhino in 2012. This is definitely something to make you think...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6xTvmp9V0Y
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Port Elizabeth Coffee Crawl: The Donkin Coffee Shop
Wow! We're blown away by this fantastic feedback from the "coffee crawlers'" visit to the Donkin Coffee Shop!
Port Elizabeth Coffee Crawl: The Donkin Coffee Shop: On Thursday, November 17, 2011 the PE Coffee Crawlers visited Conyngham Coffee Shop. On that day we...
Port Elizabeth Coffee Crawl: The Donkin Coffee Shop: On Thursday, November 17, 2011 the PE Coffee Crawlers visited Conyngham Coffee Shop. On that day we...
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