Even the tough of animal devotee were traumatize by the virulent rhino poachingat Thoiry Zoological Park in Parislast week , where sea poacher shot a white rhinoceros and stole its   saddle horn . In light of this extremely mess up - up news program , Dvur Kralove Zoo in the Czech Republic has now said it will chop up off the horns of its nonmigratory rhinos to avoid enticement , AFP tidings agencyreports .

“ It ’s for the saki of rhino safety , ” Andrea Jirousova , spokeswoman for the zoo , enjoin AFP . “ The fire [ in France ] put us on alerting , the danger is really intense . ”

The menagerie presently hold a assorted herd of 21 , made up of southerly snowy rhinos and fatal rhinos .   issue of sinister rhino have pass up by97 percentsince 1960 . The number of southerly white rhino subspecies are also considered to be “ near threatened ” with extinction by theIUCN Red List .

The program is to dehorn 18 of these rhinos to ascertain they are n’t desirable to poachers , sparing three of the calves due to their vernal eld . The zoo did n’t say when the operations will take place but they will be perform under general anesthetic and will be painless for the animals . It ’s most likely vets will have to use a chain saw to do the surgical procedure due to the thickness of the horn .

A Belgian zoo is select similar steps to warn poachers . The Pairi Daiza zoo , near the cap Brussels , recently explainedin a statementfrom the zoological garden ' director   Eric Bomb , that it will castrate the horns of its white rhinoceros as an “ an additional security department measure ” follow the upshot in France .

By the kilo , rhino horn is pricier than caviar , cocaine , and gold , with a single French horn fetching as much as $ 300,000 . They are sell on the smuggled market , mainly in China and Vietnam , under the dissembling of being a traditional medicine and aphrodisiac . Saddest of all , these mystical properties are full nonsense . Rhino motor horn are actuallymade entirely of keratin , the same protein that score up most of our skin , hair , and nail . Using rhino trump as a music is as much economic consumption as chewing on toenails .

Nevertheless , the illegalmulti - billion clam   marketis boom . European museum have suffered a cosmic string of burglaries targeting their rhino horns over the preceding decade . In the lightness of the late poaching at Thoiry Zoological Park , it ’s looking like dehorning rhinos might become a necessity .