"The criminal syndicates would like to kill every rhino on the planet and control every rhino horn left in existence," he says. "Then a horn will have an infinite value. They will buy up the Pembient horn and sell it for tens of millions."This year, researchers with San Diego Zoo Global and the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, in Berlin, revealed they're working on an absolute last-ditch effort -- building rhinoceroses from scratch using stem cell technology. Black rhino Mabuya is blind after being shot in the eyes by poachers. She gave birth to Squirt while being treated at the Lowveld Rhino Trust in Zimbabwe.

Here's how it would work, A team from the San Diego Zoo would induce stem cells from pulp fiction iphone case the three remaining northern white rhinos -- which are too old to breed -- into sperm and egg cells, The team will also use frozen sperm and other cells taken from 10 other northern white rhinos before they died, The scientists will then use IVF to fertilize the egg and implant the resulting embryo in a surrogate southern white rhino, It's a real moonshot, "Only two embryos have ever been created," says Sieffert, "One grew to two cells and one grew to three cells but weren't viable after that, A rhino's a lot more than three cells, The technology just isn't there."In 2015, the UK nonprofit organization Protect announced it would help save rhinos by installing cameras in their horns, This system, called RAPID (Real-time Anti-Poaching Intelligence Device), would comprise the camera, a GPS collar and a heart-rate monitor, A suddenly rapid heart rate would tell the system to switch on the camera, sound an alarm and dispatch an anti-poaching team..

It sounds great in theory. It also raised quite a few questions: How long would the power last? What if the rhino damaged anything? Could poachers steal or destroy the camera?. Rhinos are monitored from the air at the Lowveld Rhino Trust in Zimbabwe. Protect seems to have backed away from the idea. At the time of this writing, the organization had removed any mention of RAPID from its website and YouTube channel. And its chief architect, Paul O'Donoghue of the University of Chester, in England, didn't respond to requests for comment.

Snitch took a more feasible approach, Using GPS trackers, satellite imagery and analytics software, his team created models predicting the movements of rhinos, rangers and poachers in South Africa's Olifants West Reserve, "We now have 11 months of data on every patrol route, every animal seen, every anomaly the rangers spotted," says Snitch, "I now have an organic model of how the reserve breathes, how people and animals move, so I know when pulp fiction iphone case and where to target poachers."But not everything has to be state of the art, Simple trickery can work, too..

"I put $12 fake CCTV cameras with motion and blinking lights up in a number of trees -- along with a couple of real cameras," says Snitch, now director of federal relations at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. "The poachers think I have the fence line covered. In the area we are currently operating, we have cut poaching by 87 percent."He's also using the nature to aid efforts to supply technology in the field, an ingenious combination that relies on a firm understanding of the way the local environment works.