Since January, 99 people have been arrested for rhino-related matters country wide, the police spokesman said.
Namibia created a culture of good human-wildlife interactions by involving communities, employing locals in anti-poaching patrols and generating income from rhino-related tourism.
"This is an alarming situation, " said Dipankar Ghose, a New Delhi-based rhino-conservation expert at the World Wide Fund for Nature.
Instead, WWF believes that such a move would only further endanger the lives of rhino - and possibly drive them to extinction.
According to the charity Care for the Wild, South Africa's call for a debate on what they term "rhino-conomics" is preparing the ground for the legal sale of horn.
Today, Kunene has the largest number of free-roaming black rhino in the world -- the only rhino worldwide living on communally- and traditionally-owned land without formal conservation status.
The price of rhino horn - used in traditional medicine in Asian countries - has soared.
Every year, the story of the great rhino round-up is given great play in the local media.
Woolly mammoth and woolly rhino remains - more than a quarter of a million years old - have been found there.
The World Wildlife Fund - hosting a conference on rhino conservation in London - said the number of rhinos in Asia is also beginning to improve.
Professor du Toit, director of the Mammal Research Unit at Pretoria University, says commercial white-owned farms in Zimbabwe are home to many rare large mammals, including cheetah, black rhino and sable - a type of antelope.
Roaming the reserve are the so-called big five--lion, leopard, rhino, elephant and buffalo--in addition to hippo, giraffe, zebra, warthog, hyena, springbok, wildebeest, and a multitude of smaller creatures and birds.
The SEC suit, filed in New York federal court, says the brokers aided or failed to prevent a short-selling scheme carried out for Rhino Advisors, a now-defunct New York money management firm.
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Among destination countries, Vietnam failed on "key aspects of compliance and enforcement" for the rhino and the tiger-part trades.
Nepal is among 11 countries in the world where the one-horn rhino lives.
The park is home to two-thirds of the world's one-horned rhino population and also has a large number of elephants, tigers and other wildlife.
If this experiment and others are to be part of the rhino's long-term salvation, then the Imire seven must produce a new generation of at least seven survivors.
Kaziranga, a 330-square-mile expanse on the southern bank of the swirling Brahmaputra River, which flows from the Tibetan Plateau to the Bay of Bengal, is one of the final sanctuaries of rhinoceros unicornis, the one-horned rhino.
Three years ago, the then-president of Rhino Advisors, Thomas Badian, settled SEC charges of using offshore accounts to short shares of Sedona.
For people in China, ivory and rhino horn are important culturally and - wrongly - medicinally.
The two sub-species of white rhino (Ceratotherium simum) have a population in the region of 20, 000 in South Africa alone.
Vietnam, Laos and Mozambique have been ranked lowest in a report focusing on the illegal rhino horn, ivory and tiger-part trade.
Despite having survived as a species for at least 50 million years, black and white rhino have been hunted to near-extinction because of their horns.
Li's co-conspirator smuggled the rhino horns in porcelain vases and mailed them to Hong Kong and China to a person other than Li to evade detection by U.S. officials.
In Nepal, conservationists recorded particular success story with a five-fold increase in the rhino population since the 1960s.
Its well-policed national parks have almost single-handedly rescued the white rhino from extinction.
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Stranger still, rhino horn is increasingly offered as a cocaine-like powder to guests at exclusive VIP parties in China and Vietnam as a superstitious way to ward off morning-after hangover symptoms.
In Vietnam many believe that ground rhino horn can be used to cure cancer - although there is no scientific proof of this - and horns taken to the the Middle East are used to make handles for ornamental daggers.
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