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Re:A Novel way to curb poaching, injecting radioisotopes int... by sneela on Friday June 28, 2024 @09:25AM (#40820413)
> Every 20 hours in South Africa a rhino dies for its horn.

I didn't know this statistic before - this is disheartening.

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Re:A Novel way to curb poaching, injecting radioisotopes int... by aziaziazi on Friday June 28, 2024 @10:13AM (#40820791)
Here’s another one : between 24 and 150 animal species go extinct probably every day !

> current extinctions were ‘up to 100 times higher than the background rate.’

https://e360.yale.edu/features/global_extinction_rates_why_d...

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