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Q: Namibia has started dehorning rhinos in national parks and private conservation reserves to save the animals from poaching after 14 of the pachyderms were slaughtered this year, according to the Environment Ministry. 
  
 Namibia has one of the world’s largest populations of black rhinos, which are under threat from poachers who sell their horns on the black market mainly for use in Chinese medicine, according to the World Wildlife Fund. About 1,750 black rhinos live in Namibia, out of a global population of 4,800, and 469 white rhinos, according to Save The Rhino and WWF. 
  
 “Rhino poaching has risen dramatically, that is why we have to take some immediate and drastic measures,” Deputy Environment Minister Pohamba Shifeta said by today phone from the capital, Windhoek. 
  
 The dehorning exercise is being conducted in the northern Kunene and Omusati regions on the border of Angola and Erongo in the west, where rhinos face the biggest risk of poaching, Shifeta said. The animals are darted with an anesthetic, sometimes from a helicopter, and have their horns cut off with a chainsaw or hack saw, according to Save the Rhino. 
  
 “We are going to harvest as many rhino horns as possible,”said Shifeta. 
  
 Anti-Poaching Team 
  
 The government plans to stockpile the horns and it will need consent under the United Nations’ Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES, before selling them, said Shifeta. 
  
 The southwestern nation is also creating a 300-strong anti-poaching unit made up of members of law enforcement agencies that will patrol in poorly policed national parks and it’s planning to deploy surveillance drones, he said. Elephants in the country, which number about 25,000, are also being targeted by poachers. At least 43 of the animals have been killed for their tusks this year, the Namibia Press Agency reported, citing Environment Minister Uahekua Herunga. 
  
 “The poachers we are dealing with appear to be well trained and they know how to maneuver,” Shifeta said. 
  
 In neighboring South Africa at least 769 rhinos have been poached so far this year, compared with 1,004 in all of last year. Most rhinos in South Africa are white rhinos, the bigger of the two types of the animal found in Africa. They can weigh more than 2 metric tons. 
  
 In addition to dehorning rhinos South African conservation officials and groups have debated injecting rhino horns with poison or dye to deter poachers. 
  
 To contact the reporter on this story: Felix Njini in Windhoek at fnjini@bloomberg.net 
  
 To contact the editors responsible for this story: Antony Sguazzin at asguazzin@bloomberg.net Sarah McGregor, Alastair Reed ||||| Back in 1989, Namibia took a radical step in its attempt to ward off poaching: it began purposefully removing some of its rhinos' horns. None of those dehorned rhinos were poached. 
  
 Now, the country is hoping the same tactic might save its critically endangered black rhinos from extinction. As Vice News reports, the Namibian government has decided to remove the horns of as many rhinos as possible in an effort to deter poachers. The horns eventually find their way to Asian black markets—especially in Vietnam and China—where many see them as a tonic for everything from cancer to a hangover. 
  
 Government officials say rhinos will be anesthetized from the air or ground. Then, professionals will harmlessly remove their horns with a chainsaw or hacksaw. There is some talk about then selling the horns legally, although that is a contentious issue. 
  
 About 1,750 of the world's 4,800 black rhinos live in Namibia, Vice continues. So far, Namibia has lost 14 rhinos to poachers this year. 
  
 Dehorning the rhinos, however, will not necessarily drop eliminate poaching, however. In the past, dehorned rhinos have been poached in Zimbabwe, for example. "This is often attributed to the stub of horn that is left after removal," Save the Rhino, a non-profit organization, explains. "During any dehorning exercise a stub of horn will remain: although poaching is made less profitable, the sad reality is that poachers will still kill for a horn stub due to its high value." 
  
 To try and ensure that doesn't happen, Vice reports, Namibia will also be launching a 300-person anti-poaching task force, complete with surveillance drones. |||||
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You know what they say about drastic times. Rhino poaching has gotten so much worse in Namibia in the past year that the government is moving forward with a drastic measure—cutting off the coveted horns before poachers can get to them. Unfortunately, even this may not fully deter poachers, who at least in Zimbabwe have still killed dehorned rhinos to get what they could for the stubs that remained, reports the Smithsonian. Trading rhino horns is banned by the UN, but they're used in Chinese medicine as a treatment for fevers and gout and in Vietnam as a hangover remedy; their consumption is even becoming a status symbol among wealthy men in Vietnam. Roughly a third of the planet's 4,800 black rhinos live in Namibia, and on the surface, the fact that 14 rhinos were killed there this year may not sound alarming, especially when compared to what neighboring South Africa has seen: 769 white rhinos poached this year, per Bloomberg. "It is minor in terms of the total population, but disturbing that more rhinos have been poached in the past year than the past 10 years combined," the managing director of the World Wildlife Fund tells Vice News. The plan is to first anesthetize the rhinos, in some cases from helicopters, and use chainsaws or hacksaws to remove the horns. A new anti-poaching agency of 300 law enforcement officers and surveillance drones will also patrol the national parks. (Last year, poachers killed what may have been the last standing rhino in Mozambique.)