{"id":24566,"date":"2024-06-28T01:56:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T20:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24566"},"modified":"2025-04-07T10:27:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T04:57:34","slug":"rhisotope-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/rhisotope-project\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Rhisotope Project?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Rhisotope Project:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was started in 2021 in <strong>South Africa.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It aims to make the rhinoceros<strong> horns easier to detect<\/strong> at border posts and render them useless for human consumption.<\/li>\n<li>The project involves inserting <strong>two tiny radioactive chips<\/strong> into the horns of 20 rhinos.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>low-dose radioactive material<\/strong> is designed to be <strong>detectable by radiation sensors<\/strong> at international borders without harming the animals or the environment.<\/li>\n<li>The radioactive material is expected <strong>to last five years on the horn<\/strong>, making it a more cost-effective solution than dehorning every 18 months. Additionally, the team sprayed 11,000 microdots on each treated horn for further identification.<\/li>\n<li>The team of scientists will take <strong>follow-up blood samples<\/strong> to ensure the rhinoceroses are effectively protected.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>South Africa, home to the majority of the world&#8217;s rhinos, has been battling a poaching crisis driven by demand from Asia, where rhino horns are used in <strong>traditional medicine.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Radioactivity?<\/h3>\n<p>Radioactivity is the physical phenomenon of certain elements &#8211; such as uranium &#8211; of emitting energy in the form of radiation. This energy comes from the decay of an unstable nucleus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/s-africa-scientists-make-rhino-horns-radioactive-to-curb-poaching\/article68335659.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">South African scientists make rhino horns radioactive to curb poaching<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhisotope Project  aims to make the rhinoceros horns easier to detect at border posts and render them useless for human consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}