World Rhino Day calls for urgent effort to save 27,000 remaining rhinos

White rhinoceros in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Photo by Esculapio, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

NEW YORK – Each year on September 22 — World Rhino Day — we join together with the Association of Zoos & Aquariums and our fellow members of the Wildlife Trafficking Alliance to raise awareness about how rhinos are rapidly disappearing from the wild. Their senseless killing is solely due to global demand for their horn, used primarily in traditional medicines.Continue reading