{"id":4804,"date":"2025-10-27T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=4804"},"modified":"2025-10-24T13:45:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:45:38","slug":"countering-poaching-with-radioactive-rhinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/countering-poaching-with-radioactive-rhinos\/","title":{"rendered":"Countering Poaching with Radioactive Rhinos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African scientists have\u00a0begun\u00a0injecting radioactive isotopes into rhino horns, not to hurt them but to protect them\u00a0from poachers. \u00a0The isotopes are\u00a0harmless to the rhinos, but\u00a0if smugglers try to transport the horns, radiation detectors at airports and borders will pick up the signal and alert authorities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nuclear defense for rhinos? Radioactive horns launched to fight illegal hunting<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/radioactive-horns-combat-rhino-poaching\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/radioactive-horns-combat-rhino-poaching<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781784274542\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African scientists have\u00a0begun\u00a0injecting radioactive isotopes into rhino horns, not to hurt them but to protect them\u00a0from poachers. \u00a0The isotopes are\u00a0harmless to the rhinos, but\u00a0if smugglers try to transport the horns, radiation detectors at airports and borders will pick up the signal and alert authorities. Nuclear defense for rhinos? Radioactive horns launched to fight illegal&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/countering-poaching-with-radioactive-rhinos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Countering Poaching with Radioactive Rhinos&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,53,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4806,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions\/4806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}