Zimbabwe Seeks World’s Help to Save Rhinos
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HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe appealed Friday for urgent international support to save its decimated black rhino population, saying it is short of money to fight a long-running war against poachers.
Natural Resources and Tourism Minister Herbert Murerwa said Zimbabwe had lost 1,200 of the endangered animals to poachers since 1984. It was home in the mid-1980s to more than 2,500.
“The international community should help us as a matter of urgency in this worthy cause (to protect the rhino),” he said.
Rhino horn is used mainly as an aphrodisiac in the Far East and in parts of the Gulf where it is prized for the handles of ornamental daggers.
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