CBC News - World - Rare rhinos victims of Nepal's instability: "Eight rhinos have been killed in less than a month, according to the Times of India, which reported that dozens of school children attended a gathering in Kathmandu on Sunday, bearing placards demanding action against poachers. Twenty-eight rhinos have been killed in the past 11 months.
The animals are poached for their horn which is believed to have medicinal value and is coveted as an ornamental dagger handle.
At their most critical point, there were only 200 left in the wild. Stronger and better-enforced conservation laws over the last few years have helped increase their numbers to just under 500 in Nepal's tall grasslands and its forests in the Himalayan foothills. Another 2,000 live in the adjacent jungles of India."
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