Rhinos on the verge of extinction? 

Since 2007, South Africa has seen a 5,000 percent increase in the poaching of rhinos. Being such an animal lover, this upsets me. This year, there has also been an increase in the death toll of rhinos. Last year, poachers killed 668 rhinos; this year the death toll is already 688 and there is still three more months left in the year. The black market is a huge seller of rhino horns, which is the reason they have been hunted. “They are worth there weight in gold”, stated Mathew Lewis, Senior program officer of African species with the World Life Fund (WWF).  In Vietnam, it there has been a recent and growing myth that rhino horn can cure cancer and also help with hangovers! But currently, all studies prove this to be false. It’s also dangerous for the people to believe in this because of getting real medical help they are relying in these “cures” that do not actually even work, Marshall Jones pointed out. With the population of rhinos declining so rapidly they have started to implement a 24-hour guard of the rhinos. Because the rhinos are being sold on the black market, they aren’t the only ones in danger and dying. The rhino guards are being killed so that the poachers can get their “product”. I hope that we can save theses beautiful creatures. As the Environmental affairs minster of South Africa promised, "I can assure you that we will not allow rhinos to become extinct on our watch,"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/23/rhinos-killed-south-africa-record-2013-poaching_n_3976258.html?utm_hp_ref=green