Agriculture Report - In South Africa, Armed Guards for Rhinos

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VOA Learning English, this is the Agriculture Report in English. Some private game farmers in South Africa are armed protection for their rhinos. New security companies are started to fight an increase in rhinoceros poaching. Poachers now well-armed and well-financed-. A single horn sells for $65,000 per kilogram. That is more valuable than gold. horns are sold mostly in Vietnam and China. People wrongly believe that the material in the horn can all kinds of problems. Simon Rood started a security in South Africa five years ago, when rhino poaching to increase. His 35 rangers supervise an area of hectares in Limpopo province. Simon Rood was a soldier the South African army, and gives military training to rangers. He says they have never lost a rhino poaching. This, he says, is because his rangers patrol hours a day, seven days a week, and live sleep in the countryside. Callie Botha manages a wildlife that had six rhinos. Recently he found one dead, its horns cut off. He owned the rhino for years. Replacing a rhino costs about $28,000. But Callie says armed protection also costs a lot, and he about his own safety. So he may stop breeding . He says, "The risk is too high. "Other wildlife are willing to pay to protect their rhinos. Karen works at South Africa's only rhino orphanage. She thinks should be a law to establish rules for training. security companies are not well-trained-, she says, there is risk of corruption. She says a long-term solution will through education and law enforcement. For VOA Learning English, Carolyn Presutti.

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