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(28 Jun 2024)
SOUTH AFRICA RADIOACTIVE RHINOS

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Limpopo, South Africa - 25 June 2024

1. Mid of Wits University staff injecting a southern white rhino with anaesthesia
2. Wide of project members pushing and directing a rhino after it had been anaesthetized
3. Various of James Larkin drilling into the rhino horn and placing radioactive material before covering the holes with glue
4. Wide of James Larkin spraying the rhino horn
5. SOUNDBITE (English) James Larkin, Wits University Director of Radiation and Health Physics:
“What you've just seen here is, something new, something completely novel. We are now using radio isotopes inserted in the horn to make the horn, to devalue the horn in the eyes of end users. Because, we've got to do something new and something different to reduce poaching."

6. Various of James Larkin drilling into the rhino horn and placing radioactive material before covering the holes with glue
7. SOUNDBITE (English) James Larkin, Director of Radiation and Health Physics at University of the Witwatersrand:
“We also, we're doing this because it makes it significantly easier to intercept these horns as they are being trafficked over international borders, because there is a global network of radiation monitors that have been designed to prevent nuclear terrorism. And we're piggybacking on the back of that.”

8. Various of James Larkin cutting off a match stick from the rhino horn and spraying the horn
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Nithaya Chetty, Wits University Dean of the Department of Science:
“The kind of standard response by, by the kind of conservation system in South Africa has been to basically de-horn rhinos on scale. And, we haven't had much of that experience in the past, but now, after a few years of having done that, we can see that it's really impacted very negatively on the social structure of rhinos. And this is awful, really. I mean, rhinos are very territorial. And the moment, you begin to kind of impact on the ways in which they can defend the territory.”

10. Wide James Larkin getting up after placing radioactive material into an unconscious rhino
11. Wide project members assessing the rhino after the anaesthesia has been reversed
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Nithaya Chetty, Wits University Dean of the Department of Science:
"The rhino remains intact, with its horn. It’s able to continue to engage with its fellow rhinos in a socially meaningful way and in that sense, it's a nondestructive, noninvasive way in which we trying to deal with the problem.”

13. Wide of Arrie van Deventer and project members talking with rhinos in the background
SOUNDBITE (English) Arrie van Deventer, Founder of the Rhino Orphanage
“You get a thing like nuclear medicine nowadays. So it's not - nuclear and radioactivity not only kills, but it also cures. So it's perfectly safe for the rhino, but it's not safe for the poacher because they can't move the horn. And this is really why it's all about it. Yeah, it's a magic idea."

14. Various of drilling into the rhino horn and preparation to place radioactive material into the horn
15. Various of a rhino about to get up after the anaesthesia has been reversed
16. Various of rhinos feeding in the bush

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Limpopo, South Africa - 27 June 2024
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17. SOUNDBITE (English) Pelham Jones, chairperson of the Private Rhino Owners Association:

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Limpopo, South Africa - 25 June 2024

18. Wide rhinos feeding in bush
19. Various of rhinos

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