Rangers trim off a rhino’s horn to save it from poachers. Photo: AFP
By BATRICE DEBUT
At night, a helicopter fitted with an infrared camera circles over the 8,000ha electric-fenced ranch in South Africa, and by day armed men in military fatigues are on patrol. Their sole mission: to protect 1,200 rhinos from poachers, who killed 1,175 of the horned beasts across the country last year.
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