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    Africa's poaching crisis

    Africa's biggest animals were poached in near record numbers in 2012, with surging demand for horn and ivory from Asia driving the slaughter of rhinos and elephants. Poachers have killed hundreds of rhinos in South Africa and thousands of elephants, according to environment ministry figures.

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    2. In this Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012 file photo, a white rhino grazes in Nairobi National Park, Kenya. Alarmed that rebel militias could be profiting from a sharp increase in the poaching of elephants and
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    4. Poached ivory elephant tusks confiscated by anti-poaching patrols, Gabon, Africa
    5. Soldiers arrange a pyre of elephant tusks and thousands of pieces of worked ivory as they prepare to burn ivory stocks corresponding to roughly 850 dead elephants, in Libreville, Gabon, Wednesday, Jun
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