A marketing and financial management graduate of Pretoria Technikon, Dirk Coetzer serves is managing director for both Firminy Capital Sárl and ICON Capital Sárl. Beyond this work, Dirk Coetzer supports a number of causes, including Save the Rhino.

1. Dirk Coetzer

2.  A marketing and financial management graduate of Pretoria
Technikon, Dirk Coetzer serves is managing director for both
Firminy Capital Sárl and ICON Capital Sárl. Beyond this work,
Dirk Coetzer supports a number of causes, including Save the
Rhino.
Working to further conservation programs in Africa and Asia to
support all five species of rhino, the organization points to the
following as key threats to the animals.
1. Rhino Horn Poaching. Driven by demand from Asian
markets, where rhino horn is used as an aphrodisiac and in
traditional Chinese medicine, his form of poaching has
escalated in recent years, with criminal organizations funding
some poachers.

3.  2. Political Instability. While not a direct cause of rhino
death, political instability in rhino-inhabited regions creates
conditions that allow for easier poaching.
3. Habitat Loss. Clearance of natural rhino habitats for
agricultural and residential purposes presents a threat,
particularly to Sumatran rhinos, of which there are believed to
less than 100 in the wild.
4. Jambiya Handle Poaching. Rhino horns are sometimes
used in the creation of ornate handles for jambiya daggers,
which are popular in the Yemen. The peak of this form of
poaching was in the 1970s and 1980s, though it is still an
occasional issue in the modern day.