Johannesburg, 21 Feb 2012
Bidvest company, Konica Minolta South Africa, has donated more than half a million rand over the past six months to the World Wide Fund for Nature's (WWF's) rhino conservation work. The company recently handed over a cheque for more than R300 000 towards this initiative and continues its pledge to contribute R100 for every bizhub multifunctional device sold during 2012.
According to the head of the WWF's African Rhino Programme, Dr Joseph Okori, the funds are being put towards an initiative spearheaded by the University of Pretoria's Faculty of Veterinary Science to build a central DNA profile database for rhinos across Africa, known as RhODIS (rhino DNA index system).
The database, which currently contains DNA information on around 3 000 rhinos, is already being used to provide forensic evidence in poaching court cases.
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