Rhinos

Rhinos are beautiful, large creatures who have done no wrong to us, but some choose to get there horns for money. Many people like myself were unaware of how our rhinos were so endangered and threatened. Rhinos everyday are being poached, at a rate of about 2 per day. Rhinos are specifically picked for their horns. In some Asian cultures, some believe that when chewing on the Rhinoceros horn it can be good for healing certain things, but that is like saying that chewing our fingernails is beneficial for our heath some how. Knowing that rhinos are just being killed for just there horns is so sad, why would someone want to take a animal life just for one piece. Rhinos are one of the oldest mammals today, dating back to the 15 million years ago, before the woolly mammoth. In 2012 668 rhinos were slaughtered, at about a 5000% increase since 2011 There are two main Rhino breeds most known around, the white and the black rhino. The white rhino is more common in southern Africa. There are about 20,170 white rhinos in our world today. Much of the people who hunt the white rhino is because they are normally found in herds and are less aggressive than other breeds of rhino.     The black rhino is a critically endangered animal, being at a population of only about 4,848 rhinos in the world.  They are found around coastal east Africa. Another factor to its decreasing population is that its habitats are being destroyed by these poachers and other hunters. Rhinos of this breed can have three horns which makes them valuable to hunters and poachers wanting to make big bucks. Rhinos today have gone up in the market. There is much that you can do, donate, making people aware of this problem, and donate tot help there conservation and habitat loss. One large corporation and wildlife fund that is popular is WWF. Here is the link to there donations page :  https://support.worldwildlife.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=main_onetime_2013&s_src=AWE1401GD914