Anyone who has travelled to Africa recently will be aware of the frankly terrifying levels of poaching experienced by rhinos and elephants around the continent. But while these two animals deservedly get the majority of the press and charitable attention, they are not the only victims of mass human consumption of ivory and horn. In Botswana we discovered a lot of hippo bones.
Unlike elephants and rhinos, which are endangered, hippos are listed under appendix II of CITES, meaning some trade in their body parts is possible. And as a result, increasingly desperate stories are emerging of pods of hippos being machine-gunned down and all their teeth removed and sent to Asia.
We want to stop the poaching.
Please help us at www.save.wildlife.org
