South Africa Uses Radioactive Rhino Horns to Combat Poaching
TL;DR
Scientists in South Africa are injecting rhino horns with harmless radioactive isotopes to make them detectable by customs, aiding in the fight against poaching. The project, called Rhisotope, has successfully tested the method on a small number of rhinos, with the goal of expanding it to protect the declining rhino population, which is heavily targeted by poachers.
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