why are black rhinos endangered?
The Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis), was listed by the Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species, as an endangered species in July 1980. It has been listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2001, and may have already lost one subspecies (Diceros bicornis longipes). A recent study of, and surveys into the West African Black Rhinoceros status, failed to find any evidence of the subspecies in Cameroon. It is suspected that due to the continued political unrest, and instability of the region, that poachers have had free rein of the area. Hence, they may have removed the last of this subspecies of Black Rhinoceros from the wild. The poachers are mainly after the rhino horn. The value of a "couple of horns", which is the small and the large horn together, can run more than $50,000 when illegally selling for use in "Traditional Chinese Medicine". It is believed to be used for anything from the treatment of high fever, rendering poisons ineffective, to an aphrodisiac. It is even used as a carving material, such as for ornate bowls, cups, and daggers, called "jambia". Efforts are being made to destroy all the "old or legal" rhino horn that is stockpiled, in order to make it impossible to mix poached material with "old or legal" rhino horn, and sell it as "legal". For more information or details, please see the sites listed below.
Because we've killed them all.
Rhinos are endangerd because.
