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life, etc rhino poachng Saving <strong>africa</strong>n rhinoS, any poSSible way The South African government is taking a multidimensional approach to the rhino poaching crisis. After announcing a year ago it would conduct a study into the viability of legal trade in rhino horn, it is now holding bilateral talks with the government of Vietnam to share information. By SIPHO HLONGWANE. South Africa and Vietnam are clearly not on the same page when it comes to combating the growing crisis of rhino poaching in South Africa. This dissonance came to light when a fivemember panel from the government of Vietnam visited South Africa to hold talks with local officials on rhino poaching which has seen almost 300 of the iconic beasts butchered this year in what officials refer to as a conservation war. Photo: Dehorned rhinos are seen at the Kruger national park in Mpumalanga province September 16, 2011. The rhinos were dehorned by a veterinary surgeon to prevent poaching. September 16, 2011. REUTERS/Ilya Kachaev tuesday - 4 october 2011
life, etc the sudden upsurge in rhino poaching in the last few years is believed to have been sparked by a swelling middle-class in asia, large parts of which believe that rhino horn (which is little more than tightly compressed hair) holds medicinal properties. The Vietnamese had no clue how big the crisis actually is, South Africa's deputy director general of biodiversity and conservation in the department of water and environmental affairs, Fundisile Mketeni said to the Mail & Guardian. Statistics cited by the Vietnamese suggested that trafficking in rhino horn had decreased. In South Africa, we know the situation to be very grim. We have already lost 297 rhinos to poachers in 2011 alone, according to the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF). In August, two Vietnamese nationals were sentenced to eight and 12 years in prison for attempting to smuggle rhino horn out of South Africa. “Now that we've had the discussions and shared information, the Vietnamese are much more aware of what is going on.” South Africa’s data have been correlated with information from Traffic, the international wildlife-trade monitoring organisation. It sponsored the meeting between South African and Vietnamese officials. South Africa signed a memorandum of understanding with Vietnam. “We agreed that the memorandum and subsequent implementation plan allow co-operation in biodiversity conservation, law enforcement, rhino poachng wildlife trade, information and intelligence gathering and sharing, permit issuing processes and verification mechanisms, monitoring and reporting systems, technology development and sharing, capacity building and training, prosecution and law enforcement, awareness, knowledge and research, custom services and legal systems within which the two countries operate,” the environmental affairs department said. We needed no greater example of the desperate need for more shattering of Asian myths than the lack of information by Vietnamese officials. The sudden upsurge in rhino poaching in the last few years is believed to have been sparked by a swelling middleclass in Asia, large parts of which believe that rhino horn (which is little more than tightly compressed hair) holds medicinal properties. The Vietnamese promised to conduct public tests on rhino horn to show people that it had no medicinal value. “This is the Oriental experience founded a thousand years ago. It cannot change overnight. We have to convince the people through our own research that the horn means nothing,” said Nguyen Truy Kien, a councillor in the Vietnamese government. South Africa has also been busy at home, collaborating with local stakeholders on tuesday - 4 october 2011
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