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PBS NewsHour

Scientists make rhino horns radioactive to fight poachers

Season 2025 Episode 221 | 2m 09s

The black market trade in rhino horns is driving the species to near extinction. Now, scientists at a rhino orphanage in the Bushveld of South Africa are trying to protect them from poaching in a rather surprising way. John Yang reports.

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