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I'm really sorry to hear this side of the problem. I truly hope that bioengineering the rhino horn will be successful in preventing more damage.

• matthewmarkus 10y ago
  Thank you for your positive thoughts. Despite this awful incident in France, there has been some good news on the rhino front. In the five years before our announcement in 2015, rhino poaching was growing an average of 49% or so year-over-year, significantly more than the approximately 1% or less year-over-year growth it has experienced since then. Obviously, correlation doesn't imply causation, but whatever brought about the anomaly has bought the rhinos some time. In fact, South Africa, home to the majority of African rhinos, recently announced its second year of absolute declines in rhino poaching [1]. Hopefully, this trend will continue! [1] http://www.traffic.org/home/2017/2/27/south-africa-annual-rhino-poaching-toll-falls-for-second-yea.html http://www.traffic.org/home/2017/2/27/south-africa-annual-rh...