Namibia rhino poaching drops in 2019, after sharp rise last year
(or as the dotard refers to it, Nambia)
WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Rhino poaching in Namibia dropped to 41 individuals killed in all of 2019 so far, compared with nearly 72 during the same period last year, the Ministry of Environment and Tourism said Saturday.
Namibia has the second largest population of white rhinos in the world after South Africa and, according to NGO Save the Rhino, it holds one-third of the world’s remaining black rhinos.
Poaching in Namibia to feed mostly East Asian markets has yo-yoed since peaking in 2015 at 95 rhinos, falling to 60 in 2016, 36 in 2017 and then going up to 72 again last year - all figures counted from January through mid-December.
“The public continues to assist us in arresting perpetrators of this crime,” ministry spokesperson Romeo Muyunda said by telephone. “We have also beefed up our intelligence so that we can anticipate poaching activities before they happen.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-namibia-poaching-rhinos/namibia-rhino-poaching-drops-in-2019-after-sharp-rise-last-year-idUSKBN1YI0FJ
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