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Rhino Horns Injected With Radioactive Isotopes to Stop Poaching
Posted on 8/1/25 at 8:51 am
Posted on 8/1/25 at 8:51 am
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MOKOPANE, South Africa (AP) — A South African university launched an anti-poaching campaign Thursday to inject the horns of rhinos with radioactive isotopes that it says are harmless for the animals but can be detected by customs agents.
https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-rhinos-poaching-nuclear-5ac06bea1fba938ee2ce3b1f9bfa5675
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Last year, about 20 rhinos at a sanctuary were injected with isotopes in trials that paved the way for Thursday’s launch. The radioactive isotopes even at low levels can be recognized by radiation detectors at airports and borders, leading to the arrest of poachers and traffickers.
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“Even a single horn with significantly lower levels of radioactivity than what will be used in practice successfully triggered alarms in radiation detectors,” said Larkin.
The tests also found that horns could be detected inside full 40-foot shipping containers, he said.
This post was edited on 8/1/25 at 9:48 am
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Posted on 8/1/25 at 8:54 am to Shexter
Radioactive Rhinos... nothing could go wrong here, right?
Posted on 8/1/25 at 8:55 am to Shexter
This post was edited on 8/1/25 at 8:56 am
Posted on 8/1/25 at 8:56 am to Shexter
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The radioactive isotopes even at low levels can be recognized by radiation detectors at airports and borders, leading to the arrest of poachers and traffickers.
check me if I'm wrong Sandy but if the isotopes are recognized by radiation detectors at the airports and borders isn't it too late for the rhino?
Posted on 8/1/25 at 8:58 am to Shexter
Nuclear Rhinos would be a great name for a band.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 9:00 am to auggie
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Nuclear Rhinos would be a great name for a band.
A light jazz band.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 9:00 am to Shexter
Miss the 1980’s after reading this.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 9:02 am to Shexter
Kicker is that they poach the horns to take to Asia and grind up. Rhino horn powder is thought to be an aphrodisiac. I know they ingest it (pills? Snort it? No clue.)
So now the people buying the rhino horn drug that makes it through customs will get cancer and die?
So now the people buying the rhino horn drug that makes it through customs will get cancer and die?
Posted on 8/1/25 at 9:03 am to wallowinit
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A light jazz band.
Have to have a great horn section.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 9:03 am to 777Tiger
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check me if I'm wrong Sandy but if the isotopes are recognized by radiation detectors at the airports and borders isn't it too late for the rhino?
But it is not too late to arrest the poacher and get them off the streets. That saves other rhinos.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 9:03 am to Shexter
Posted on 8/1/25 at 9:03 am to Shexter
If you poach a rhino you deserve to be decapitated. Scum of the earth.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 9:06 am to 777Tiger
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check me if I'm wrong Sandy but if the isotopes are recognized by radiation detectors at the airports and borders isn't it too late for the rhino?
Yes, but it's all but impossible to stop that in the field.
Making the horns worthless is how to stop it.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 9:10 am to Shexter
Posted on 8/1/25 at 9:36 am to notsince98
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But it is not too late to arrest the poacher and get them off the streets. That saves other rhinos.
I'm all for whatever saves the rhinos but this seems pretty ineffective. Way too many poachers in Africa to think arresting someone at the airport is going to make any discernable difference. But good on them for trying.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 9:45 am to slidingstop
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Way too many poachers in Africa to think arresting someone at the airport is going to make any discernable difference.
Yep, and they’re just going to be catching low level couriers. None of the African or Chinese dealers.
Posted on 8/1/25 at 9:49 am to SlowFlowPro
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Yes, but it's all but impossible to stop that in the field.
Making the horns worthless is how to stop it.
A dude tried this and was fought at every turn. He had the right idea, but the governments of the world wouldn't give him a chance.
Meet the man trying to save endangered rhinos – by selling their horns
He wanted to breed rhinos and sell them around the world for people to set up rhino ranches, thus making it a commodity and not worth poaching.
The governments would not allow him to sell even his harvested rhino horn.
This post was edited on 8/1/25 at 9:50 am
Posted on 8/1/25 at 9:59 am to Shexter
So, they don’t want poachers to kill rhinos but they inject them with radioactive isotopes instead?
Posted on 8/1/25 at 10:02 am to Jcorye1
The project's CEO
This post was edited on 8/1/25 at 10:04 am
Posted on 8/1/25 at 10:09 am to Fat and Happy
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but they inject them with radioactive isotopes instead?
Article says "harmless to the animal"
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