The Sad, Beautiful, Surreal Sight of an Endangered Rhino Being Airlifted to Safety
Seth Abramovitch · 11/08/11 04:22AMIt's a bleak landscape for the mighty black rhinoceros. The WWF announced this week that 353 of the endangered mammals, whose horn is incorrectly thought to have cancer-curing powers, have been poached this year alone, already exceeding the number poached in 2010. Current estimates put the total population of the species at 4,240.