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Kobus Crous at the carcass of KC presumably released by poachers and dehorning are numb. The brutal death of a second rhino in six months on a game farm near Hartenbos in the Southern Cape, the dejected owner yesterday agreed to let its remaining rhinos to sell.
"I can not be fighting poachers," said Kobus Crous owner Bersig Wednesday. Crous has been double electrified fences and infrared cameras cuisinart coffee maker installed after a four-year-old rhino in the same camp in January by poachers numb and horns with machetes removed.
The carcass in the field about 1.5km from the farmhouse lay with binoculars was Van Heerden discovers that the animal died. He has Crous informed. In January, Van Heerden also the bad news.
"KC and his partner MC (rhino) cuisinart coffee maker were inseparable," said Crous said. "We regularly from the veranda with binoculars watched. They often went to the fence next to the house begging food. KC was very tame and unafraid of humans. "According to Crous was KC's primary horn extraordinary.
Dr. Frans de Graaff, vet Hartenbos Animal cuisinart coffee maker Clinic, the carcass and found that the rhino several times verdowingspyle shot. A lot of blood at the rhino's head suggests that he was still alive when the horns with a sharp object removed.
Crous is the infrared cameras cuisinart coffee maker activated by movement and there is not footage of poachers not. Almost the whole camp of the farmhouse porch visible, but the rhino is just behind a hill out of sight of the house killed after.
"I cuisinart coffee maker was discouraged," said Crous said. "The security measures more than R100 000 and it did not help. I do not know what you can do to thwart the poachers do not. "
The suspicion that the place watched. "KC was a dominant bull recently by double fences around the camp broke for another rhino to run wild. The raiders had known the fence is still not fully recovered. "
According to Garrett, the current price of live rhinos R250 000, but because the animals ruthlessly wiped out, there is not much of a demand. During an auction at Beaufort West in June this year there was no interest in the white rhino in the auction catalog no.
Rhino horn, however, by middlemen sell for between R65 000 and R85 000 per kilogram. The market value is six times as much. A large rhino horns altogether to weigh 11kg and on the open market up to R5 million.
Oyster Fest growing bigger and better Date: 28/06/2012
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Kobus Crous at the carcass of KC presumably released by poachers and dehorning are numb. The brutal death of a second rhino in six months on a game farm near Hartenbos in the Southern Cape, the dejected owner yesterday agreed to let its remaining rhinos to sell.
"I can not be fighting poachers," said Kobus Crous owner Bersig Wednesday. Crous has been double electrified fences and infrared cameras cuisinart coffee maker installed after a four-year-old rhino in the same camp in January by poachers numb and horns with machetes removed.
The carcass in the field about 1.5km from the farmhouse lay with binoculars was Van Heerden discovers that the animal died. He has Crous informed. In January, Van Heerden also the bad news.
"KC and his partner MC (rhino) cuisinart coffee maker were inseparable," said Crous said. "We regularly from the veranda with binoculars watched. They often went to the fence next to the house begging food. KC was very tame and unafraid of humans. "According to Crous was KC's primary horn extraordinary.
Dr. Frans de Graaff, vet Hartenbos Animal cuisinart coffee maker Clinic, the carcass and found that the rhino several times verdowingspyle shot. A lot of blood at the rhino's head suggests that he was still alive when the horns with a sharp object removed.
Crous is the infrared cameras cuisinart coffee maker activated by movement and there is not footage of poachers not. Almost the whole camp of the farmhouse porch visible, but the rhino is just behind a hill out of sight of the house killed after.
"I cuisinart coffee maker was discouraged," said Crous said. "The security measures more than R100 000 and it did not help. I do not know what you can do to thwart the poachers do not. "
The suspicion that the place watched. "KC was a dominant bull recently by double fences around the camp broke for another rhino to run wild. The raiders had known the fence is still not fully recovered. "
According to Garrett, the current price of live rhinos R250 000, but because the animals ruthlessly wiped out, there is not much of a demand. During an auction at Beaufort West in June this year there was no interest in the white rhino in the auction catalog no.
Rhino horn, however, by middlemen sell for between R65 000 and R85 000 per kilogram. The market value is six times as much. A large rhino horns altogether to weigh 11kg and on the open market up to R5 million.
Oyster Fest growing bigger and better Date: 28/06/2012
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