South African Rhino Reserve Poisons Horns to Halt Poaching
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The Rhino & Lion Reserve, a privately-owned park north of Johannesburg, said it is conducting tests to inject poison and an indelible dye into the horns of living rhinos to combat poaching.
“Testing is ongoing and comprehensive to ensure that the animals are in no way harmed,” it said in an e-mailed statement yesterday. While harmless to rhinos the poison causes nausea, vomiting and convulsions in humans.