{"id":32768,"date":"2017-02-23T01:20:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T01:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/poachers-kill-two-rhinos-at-south-africa-s-thula\/"},"modified":"2017-02-23T01:20:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T01:20:24","slug":"poachers-kill-two-rhinos-at-south-africa-s-thula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/poachers-kill-two-rhinos-at-south-africa-s-thula\/","title":{"rendered":"Poachers kill two rhinos at South Africa&#8217;s Thula Thula orphanage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Poachers have killed two rhinos during a vicious attack on an animal orphanage in South Africa.}<\/p>\n<p>Rhinos Impi and Gugu had their horns taken after a gang of poachers took staff hostage at the Fundimvelo Thula Thula Rhino Orphanage in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Gugu was killed instantly but Impi survived, only to have to be put down the next morning due to his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Staff members are understood to have been assaulted during the attack.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa saw a decline in the numbers of rhinos killed for their prized horns in the first half of 2016, down to 702 from 796 the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>However, the reduction came after several years of increases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is this another stage? That&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve been asking,&#8221; Thula Thula&#8217;s Karen Trendler told journalist Bonn\u00e9 de Bod in a Facebook Live video. &#8220;There has been an increasing desensitisation, there has been an escalation in the violence in the poaching and the mutilation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The rhinos had been due to have their horns removed next week to protect them from ivory traders, according to local media.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18410 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_94800654_b7b8f532-03c0-4d17-9c33-dc052b7f8d98.jpg\" alt=\"More than 700 rhinos were killed in South Africa in the first half of last year\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:BBC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Poachers have killed two rhinos during a vicious attack on an animal orphanage in South Africa.} Rhinos Impi and Gugu had their horns taken after a gang of poachers took staff hostage at the Fundimvelo Thula Thula Rhino Orphanage in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday night. Gugu was killed instantly but Impi survived, only to have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-32768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32768"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32768"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}