Chip solution

This picture taken on November 7 shows officers from the Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) tending to a sedated black rhinoceros at the Nairobi national park during an exercise to implant microchips in an effort to stem poaching of the endangered mammal.

Conservationists in Kenya are implanting microchips in the horns of the country’s rhinos in its fight against increasingly sophisticated poachers. The KWS said it will use the chips along with DNA records to track the country’s dwindling rhino population, which is thought to be around 1,000. It hopes the technology will protect living rhinos – and provide evidence when it comes to bringing poachers to justice in court.