The mass slaughter of rhinos has increased for the sixth year in a row, according to researchers from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The losses come despite a drive to fight poaching gangs by strengthening patrols, harnessing satellite technology, and boosting intelligence-gathering. The IUCN blames continuing demand from Southeast Asia, where rhino horn is wrongly believed to have medicinal properties, fed by increasingly sophisticated international crime networks.
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