A female rhinoceros (left)—her horn long since stolen by chainsaw-wielding poachers—meets a male in Tugela Private Game Reserve in South Africa in November 2010. Photographer Brent Stirton captured the image, part of a winning series, while on assignment for the March 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. (See more rhino pictures from the assignment.) Soaring demand from middle- and upper-class Asians has made rhino horn more valuable than gold—and cost South Africa alone more than 400 rhinos during 2011, according to World Press Photo. “Brent’s pictures were incredible,” Sartore said. “He followed the story all the way from seeing rhinos in the field and the effects of poaching there to going into the courts to see horn traffickers at trial. He went all the way to China to watch the consumption of the horns in drinks and powders. “He really did the work on this story from top to bottom, and it was beautifully executed.” (Read more about Africa’s rhino “wars” on the Nat Geo news blog.)

A female rhinoceros (left)—her horn long since stolen by chainsaw-wielding poachers—meets a male in Tugela Private Game Reserve in South Africa in November 2010. Photographer Brent Stirton captured the image, part of a winning series, while on assignment for the March 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. (See more rhino pictures from the assignment.)

Soaring demand from middle- and upper-class Asians has made rhino horn more valuable than gold—and cost South Africa alone more than 400 rhinos during 2011, according to World Press Photo.

“Brent’s pictures were incredible,” Sartore said. “He followed the story all the way from seeing rhinos in the field and the effects of poaching there to going into the courts to see horn traffickers at trial. He went all the way to China to watch the consumption of the horns in drinks and powders.

“He really did the work on this story from top to bottom, and it was beautifully executed.” (Read more about Africa’s rhino “wars” on the Nat Geo news blog.)

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