Interview: Clive and Anton Walker Discuss Solutions to Rhino Poaching with Sue Blaine

Business Day‘s Sue Blaine interviewed Clive and Anton Walker, authors of The Rhino Keepers: Struggle for Survival.

The Walkers discussed their book, which deals with the current rhino crisis in South Africa, and explain the various solutions that people are putting forward to curb poaching:

We saved the rhino once and we can save it again, says conservationist Clive Walker, co-founder of the Endangered Wildlife Trust. Clive and his son, Anton Walker, are in Joburg to promote their book, The Rhino Keepers: Struggle for Survival (Jacana Media). That they are clearly more at home in the bush is not surprising — Clive is a conservation legend, and Anton, who is the GM of Lapalala Wilderness, is quietly making a name for himself in the rhino world too.

South Africa’s rhino story is remarkable in conservation circles across the world. By 1900, hunters had left only about 50 white rhino in Africa and about 25,000 of the more elusive black rhino. Last year, South Africa was home to about 20,755 white rhino and 4,985 black (an improvement on 1992’s 2,300). More than 80% of the world’s rhinos live here. Poaching has always been with us, but of the about 1,530 rhinos wiped out since 1980, 1,280 were killed between 2007 and mid-July this year. This year alone, 281 were dead by mid-July.

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• The Rhino Keepers: Struggle for Survival by Clive and Anton Walker
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