South Africa rhino poaching at new record levels

South Africa said that more rhinos were poached in the first four months of 2015 than in the same period last year as the scourge continues to hit record levels.'By the end of April 2015 the number of rhino we lost to poachers was 393 for the whole country,'Environment Minister Edna Molewa told a press conference in Pretoria, adding that 290 of them were poached in the Kruger National Park.The figure is a more than 18 percent increase over the first four months of 2014, when 331 rhinos were poached including 212 in Kruger, she said.The vast park bordering Mozambique is home to the majority of South Africa's 20,700 rhinos, which are killed for their horns, used in traditional Asian medicine.