Poachers Kill 4-Year-Old Rhino After Breaking Into Zoo
Julia Travers
A young white rhino ( www.ecowatch.com/tag/rhino ) was killed after being shot in the head three times by poachers who broke into the Thoiry Zoo in Paris Monday night. Poachers de-horned the 4-year-old rhino, named Vince, and left alive two other white rhinos, 37-year-old Gracie and 5-year-old Bruno. They left part of Vince’s second horn, leading local police to believe they were ill-equipped or interrupted. The poachers are still at large.
“It is extremely shocking what just happened”, Zoo Director Thierry Duguet said ( www.20minutes.fr/planete/20263… ). “An act of such violence, never before seen in Europe.” …
EcoWatch – March 08, 2017
www.ecowatch.com/rhino-poachin…
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