Anti-Poaching Inititiative

In a bid to end rampant poaching, Kenya is implanting microchips in every rhino nationwide, an extensive process that will include sedating hundreds of animals.
Decimated by illegal killings, the endangered rhino is increasingly under attack by poachers using high-tech, sophisticated technology.
The microchips will allow wildlife officials to track the animals and trace poached horns.
"It's a costly and time-consuming process to get the chips on the rhinos," said Robert Magori, the World Wildlife Fund communications director for eastern and southern Africa. "The rhinos have to be tracked, identified, sedated, fitted with two chips each (on the horn and on the animal), revived and finally released."
Kenya has 631 black rhinos and a total population of 1,030 rhinos, he said.
The animals are part of the big five that draw tourists, a major source of revenue for the east African nation. The other four are the lion, elephant, leopard and buffalo.