But the scientists are quick to point out that the process isnt harmful to the animals.
Witwatersrand posted a video toYouTubeshowing the novel process the universitys team has undertaken to fight back against poaching.
Every 20 hours in South Africa a rhino dies for its horn, Larkin said.
A member of the Rhisotope Project drills a hole to insert a radioactive pellet into the horn of a rhinoceros at a rhino orphanage in Mokopane, Limpopo district, South Africa on June 25, 2024.Photo: Cebisile Mbonani/Bloomberg (Getty Images)
These poached horns are then trafficked across the world and used for traditional medicines, or as status symbols.
There are an estimated 16,800 white rhinos and 6,500 black rhinos left in the entire world.
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