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Celebrate Save the Rhino Day

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By Kelli Bender May 01, 2012

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POACHING PROBLEM

The booming poaching business often has led poachers to kill and de-horn rhinos in protected reserves. Game parks built to monitor rhino populations are becoming surefire hunting grounds for poachers. The problem has become so expansive that some rangers working inside game parks across Africa are suspected of killing the animals they were hired to protect.

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