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No one has seen a rhino in Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park since January. It is now believed that poachers have killed the last of them. The park’s director announced earlier this week that they have concluded that rhinos are now extinct in the park and that poachers are now preying on the reserve’s elephant population, which is also endangered.
Poaching is rampant in Mozambique, much to the frustration of its neighbour, South Africa. Few statistics are available about poaching in Mozambique and the efforts to combat this travesty, however over the past five years South African wildlife officials have arrested 300 Mozambiquans for poaching, and killed another 279 who were shot in the act.
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