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The IAEA is supporting South Africa’s Rhisotope Project which uses radioactive tagging in rhino horns to combat illegal ...
In 2015 alone, 1,349 rhinos were poached in Africa. In the years since, those numbers have decreased, but at least one rhinoceros is still killed every day. To tackle this problem, a group of ...
The Rhisotope Project is embedding radioactive isotopes in the horns of rhinos in an effort to prevent poaching. Rhinos previously injected with the isotopes during Rhisotope's test phase turned out ...
Scientists have developed a safe way to embed radioactive markers in rhino horns, making them detectable and help combat ...
A South African university has launched an anti-poaching campaign to inject the horns of rhinos with radioactive isotopes, ...
The horns of rhinos are injected with radioactive isotopes that scientists say are harmless for the animals but can be detected by customs agents.
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In Mokopane, South Africa, researchers at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg have launched the Rhisotope Project, ...
We are sharing with you today perhaps the saddest wildlife video we’ve uncovered. In a YouTube video from The Telegraph, a ...
The Rhisotope Project, supported by the IAEA, is safely inserting radioactive isotopes into rhino horns to deter poachers and stop smuggling by making the horns detectable at international borders.