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Thu, 07 Jun 2007
Africa's wild rhinos, already classified as threatened with extinction, are under severe pressure from poachers tied to organised criminal networks, conservationists said on Wednesday.
All but a handful of the 30-odd rhinoceros remaining in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2002 had been killed by 2005, while poaching accounted for two-thirds of all rhino deaths in neighboring Zimbabwe, according to a study released by the wildlife group Traffic.
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