10 critically endangered black rhinos were killed in South Africa in 2010. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons A report released in the first weeks of 2011 announced that in the previous year a record number of endangered rhinoceros had been killed by poachers —333 in 2010 compared to just 133 in 2009. The next day, South African police cornered a band of poachers and—after a protracted firefight— shot and… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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