November 3rd, 2009
photo: derekkeats via flickr.
As if Zimbabwe didn’t have enough problems: The Economic Times forwards on the news that Zimbabwe’s director of national parks has told a parliamentary committee that one-quarter of the nation’s rhinoceros population has been killed by poachers, just in the last three years:… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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