While the number of white rhinos is increasing, poaching remains a top threat to these critically endangered animals. Conservation efforts are helping, but the illegal wildlife trade continues to drive killings.
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Rhinos face various environmental threats like habitat loss due to development and climate change but poaching, based on the belief that their horns have medicinal uses, remains the top threat. Known as mega herbivores that mow the parks and create inroads for other herbivores, rhinos are also good for establishing forests by ingesting seeds and spreading them across the parks in their dung.
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