Police to visit UK zoos and wildlife parks after rhino killing in France
by Caroline Davies from Environment | The Guardian on (#2F69M)
Britain's wildlife crime head says urgent security checks are needed to protect 111 rhinos in UK after attack near Paris
Police are visiting every zoo and wildlife park in the UK that houses rhinos to offer security advice after poachers shot dead a white rhinoceros and sawed off its horn at a zoo in France.
The head of Britain's National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU) said the French attack, the first of its kind in Europe, was a wake-up call, and urgent security checks needed to be made to protect the 111 rhinos in captivity in the UK.