A black dehorned rhinoceros walks on August 3, 2012 at the Bona Bona Game Reseve. By Stephane de Sakutin (AFP\/File)<\/div>\n
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CAPE TOWN (AFP) – South Africa announced its opposition to a total ban on rhino trophy exports, saying it has beefed up hunt rules amid a poaching crisis that has killed 96 animals this year.<\/p>\n
The government backed a recommendation by the UN wildlife trade regulator CITES secretariat that a proposal halting trade in rhino trophies and products be rejected at an upcoming meeting.<\/p>\n
“We also welcome CITES’ acknowledgement of the recent significant steps taken to improve the management of rhino hunting,” said environment minister Edna Molewa in a statement.<\/p>\n
Kenya has proposed that a zero export quota be put in place in Swaziland and South Africa, which has the world’s biggest white rhino population and allows legal hunts.<\/p>\n
It is one of dozens of proposals on the global wildlife trade that will be voted on at next month’s meeting of the 176-member country body in Bangkok.<\/p>\n
The CITES secretariat said that South Africa had taken “significant steps to improve its management of rhino hunting”.<\/p>\n
Rather than trophy hunting having a negative impact on white rhino population, it said “available information suggests the contrary”.<\/p>\n
South Africa overhauled its rhino hunt rules amid a scandal over abuse of permit system that saw prostitutes organised to pose as marksmen to smuggle horns to the international market.<\/p>\n
The stricter rules had “resulted in a significant reduction in the number of hunting applications received”, the environment ministry said.<\/p>\n
The proposed ban, of several years, would halt a potentially sustainable and beneficial management model, said the CITES secretariat.<\/p>\n
It would also “discourage the involvement of private landowners in the conservation of white rhinoceroses and undermine national and local rhino management strategies”, it added.<\/p>\n
The proposal would also apply more restrictions than in other countries where rhino populations were classified in the most endangered category.<\/p>\n
An unprecedented 668 rhinos were slaughtered last year for their horns, which some people in Asia believe have medicinal properties. The claim is widely discredited.<\/p>\n
South Africa has had a moratorium on rhino horn sales since 2009.<\/p>\n
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