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“Back in 2007, there were only 13 rhinos killed in the whole year, and last year there were 668 rhinos killed – that’s over a 3,000 percent increase. So we’ve seen rocketing demand and a massive increase in poaching as well,” explained Heather Sohl, chief adviser for species at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in the UK. As a result, in 2011 alone, two rhino subspecies – the Western black rhino in Africa and the Javan rhinoceros of Vietnam – were declared extinct.
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