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Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 21:07:25 -0700
From: Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net>
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Subject: Poachers kill white rhino
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Manhunt in South Africa for poachers who killed white rhino
Agence France-Presse
JOHANNESBURG (August 7, 1997 10:46 p.m. EDT) - South African rangers and
police have launched a manhunt for the poachers who killed a white
rhinoceros and cut off its horns in the country's biggest game reserve.
Poachers apparently entered the Kruger reserve from Ressano Garcia in
Mozambique overnight Monday and shot the animal with an AK-47 automatic
rifle before fleeing with the horns, police told the South African news
agency SAPA.
Last week a buffalo was killed in the same area of the reserve, which
stretches more than one million hectares (2.4 million acres). Small-time
poachers often cross into the reserve from Mozambique to
kill game for sale on neighboring markets.
Poaching of rhinoceros is much rarer, with the last case reported two
years ago, police said. Only 12,000 to 12,500 rhinoceros remain in the
wild throughout the world, compared to 70,000 in 1970.
The anti-poaching squad in the reserve, which works with South African
and Mozambique police, has helped reduce illegal hunting. Last year only
two elephants were killed in the reserve, down from 100 in 1986, and the
guards were able to find the ivory in Mozambique.
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 21:09:13 -0700
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Subject: The brave new world of cloning
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Japanese group says it can clone cattle
Reuter Information Service
TOKYO (August 7, 1997 10:46 p.m. EDT) - A Japanese farm group said
Thursday it had developed new cloning technology that could produce up
to 200 carbon-copy cattle from a single fertilized egg.
The National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations in
Japan said a cow gave birth Wednesday to a male calf produced using the
new method, Japan's first home-grown cattle cloning technology.
The technique grows cultures of a fertilized egg, from which cell nuclei
are taken and transferred to unfertilized eggs.
A federation official said cattle cloning technologies used previously
in Japan have in practice been capable of producing only three to five
head of cattle from a single fertilized egg.
"Developing cloning technology to produce cattle that can provide good
milk and beef is very important to reducing costs and improving
productivity in the livestock industry," the official said.
He added a calf has already been born in Wisconsin in the United States
