Why Black Rhinos lose the right to life in South Africa

Black Rhinos lose the right to life as South Africa is given the go-ahead to increase trophy hunting

Due to reasoning that money raised will help support conservation, South Africa has won permission from Cites to double the amount of black rhinos that can legally be killed for poaching. They have received a mixed amount of support and opposition from a variety of other African nations, with Gabon opposing the request saying: "It is a very small population threatened by poaching." Most NGOs were also anti-change due to the increasing pressure on the species. This being said, black rhinos are some of the highest paying trophy animals, costing upwards of $10,000 to hunt. This money is argued to provide a large sum of conservation funds towards the rhinos, making the hunting not only sustainable but also perhaps bringing support to the conservation of the species.

Hope brought to the Northern White Rhinos

The last two female Northern White Rhino's eggs have been fertilised, bringing hope to the species.

Seven species saving eggs have successfully been extracted from the final two surviving female northern white rhinos and fertilised, bringing hope to a once lost cause. The groundbreaking procedure carried out in Kenya has led to hopes that viable embryos will form, which will then be frozen and transferred to a surrogate southern white rhino due to the fact that the two northern white rhinos cannot carry a pregnancy.