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South Africa's Kruger park battles rhino poaching (VIDEO)

Kruger National Park is hiring 150 extra rangers to protect its rhinos.

South African police seize $7 million in assets from suspected rhino poachers

The suspected poachers face 1,872 charges in what police described as one of South Africa's biggest wildlife cases.

South Africa helicopter crash kills 5 in Kruger National Park

A helicopter crash in South Africa's Kruger National Park has killed five members of the military who were patrolling in an anti-rhino poaching operation.

A white rhino at the Kruger National Park in South Africa. A record number of rhinos are being killed in South Africa for their horns, which are then sent to Vietnam and China. Kruger park has hired an extra 150 rangers to combat rhino poaching in 2011.

Erin Conway-Smith

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