Counting the costs of white rhino poaching: We are likely underestimating the indirect and long‐term impacts

Shrader, Adrian M.

doi:10.1111/acv.12781

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“…It makes no economic or conservation sense for an inert or non-living horn to have a higher CITES listing or protection than the living animal. Poaching, specifically in the KNP has disrupted the ability of SANParks to achieve its contribution to South Africa's conservation targets for 2020 [1,3,31,35,73]. The counter reality of sustainable production wildlife management needed for the wealth of Africa's people and poverty to fit the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development [80], are clearly emphasized and quantified by [74-Error!…”

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Contribution of private game ranching and captive bred operations in South Africa to White rhinoCeratotherium simumspecies survival conservation

Furstenburg¹,

Otto²,

Niekerk³

et al. 2022

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The southern white rhinoceros (SWR) Ceratotherium simum simum, like all extant rhinoceros' species, is under global threat of extinction, due to their dwindling wild population numbers in protected areas and state-owned parks as a result of poaching. The Kruger National Park (KNP), the renowned state-owned stronghold for SWR, has suffered an estimated decline of over 75.0% of its population since 2011, with the highest annual poaching rates over the past decade and a remaining population estimated at only 2,607 animals by the end of 2020, which is an average annual population decline of -10.2% from 2008 to 2020, and 2,458 animals left by the end of June 2022. On the contrary, SWR under private custodianship and management on rewilded agro-sustainable biodiversity game ranches in South Africa (estimated currently at >8,000 animals, some of which are registered Captive Breeding Operations [CBO]; assessed CBOs contained 2,882 rhinos at the time of this study (Sep 2021), have increased in population numbers and survival rates, sustaining average annual population growth performances of 9.0%. This increase has been attributed to effective security, provision of additional habitat, dispersal, and frequent genetic exchange of rhinos between breeding subpopulations by the private sector. The conservation success of the private sector has largely been overlooked and disregarded by world conservation bodies and organizations, mostly due to misguided and prejudiced media publicity and the lack of scientific analytical assessment. Private rhino custodians and their biological/conservation breeding practices, with private agro-sustainable biodiversity wildlife management and/or captive breeding, generally being perceived and branded as either "canned" or equated to "captive zoological-gardens". Since the commencement of the International Convention on Biodiversity, global controversy exists whereby most of mankind today perceive bio-conservation of a species to be assigned in principle solely to protected areas and state-owned parks. The unique and advantageous roles of rewilded bio-conservation and sustainable-use conservation CBOs, being a key to green-economy and natural capital in a post-Covid-19 struggle, are mostly ignored. This study serves to assess and quantify the impact of private wildlife ranching in South Africa with specific focus on its potential contribution to rhino conservation specifically for that of the SWR C.s. simum.

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Contribution of private game ranching and captive bred operations in South Africa to White rhinoCeratotherium simumspecies survival conservation

Furstenburg¹,

Otto²,

Niekerk³

et al. 2022

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“…Only in Africa is there still a functionally complete suite of free‐ranging large herbivores. As Shrader (2022) notes, these large herbivores have always been vulnerable to overharvesting, but demand for the horns of rhinos has made them particularly susceptible to exploitation. Yet, against the odds, by the mid‐2000s the conservation and recovery of the white rhino ( Ceratotherium simum ) had become one of the world's greatest conservation success stories (Amin et al., 2006).…”

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“…Despite any difference in our approaches to conserving white rhino populations in Kruger National Park, as Shrader (2022) and Nhleko et al . (2022) point out, there are reasons to believe that this population can begin to grow again.…”

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“…These actions include dehorning, translocating, and manipulating the behavior of female white rhinos, coupled with harsher punishments for poaching them. While Shrader (2022) and Selier & Di Minin (2022) agree with these suggested management actions, Selier and Di Minin argue for additional slower, longer-term, and more contentious policy-based solutions that consider the global population of white rhino.…”

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“…Despite any difference in our approaches to conserving white rhino populations in Kruger National Park, as Shrader (2022) and Nhleko et al (2022) point out, there are reasons to believe that this population can begin to grow again. Although potentially masked by governments' global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is currently some evidence that poaching is decreasing in Kruger National Park .…”

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