One of the major TV networks reported that more than 100 elephants are poached in Africa each day.

So much has been made of the killing of a park lion, yet that incident is only a fraction of the carnage occurring across Africa.

The rhinoceros is a particularly vulnerable species since one horn will sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars on the black market. Because distances are vast and anti-poaching personnel, few, poachers often succeed. This time, however, the good guys prevailed and put a violent end to one poaching effort. Here’s the story.

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