Orphaned Rhinos Find Safe Refuge in S.Africa Sanctuary
Rhinoceros calf Jessie was just 4 months old when she arrived at a shelter in northern South Africa, bleeding from a cut to the shoulder and deeply traumatized.
Read moreRhinoceros calf Jessie was just 4 months old when she arrived at a shelter in northern South Africa, bleeding from a cut to the shoulder and deeply traumatized.
Read moreSouth Africa’s anti-Covid-19 lockdown is credited with helping to achieve a dramatic drop in rhino killings, but as the country opens up experts warn of a possible resurgence of poaching of one of Earth’s most endangered mammals.
Read moreThe number of South African rhinos killed by poachers fell by half in the first six months of the year, but 166 were slaughtered nonetheless, the environment minister said Friday.
Read moreFederal prosecutors announced Tuesday that an Irish man accused of trafficking endangered black rhinoceros horns from Texas to New York City was extradited to the Lone Star State.
Read moreThe armed rangers set off at dusk in pursuit of poachers. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought a new alertness, and a new fear.
Read moreAfrica’s red-billed oxpeckers – known as “the rhino’s guard” or Askari wa kifaru in Swahili – truly live up to their indigenous names, according to research published Thursday which found the birds are instrumental in helping black rhinos avoid poachers and other humans.
Read moreSouth Africa recorded a 23% drop in the number of rhinos killed by poachers last year, official figures showed Monday.
Read moreResearchers say they have successfully created another embryo of the nearly extinct northern white rhino in a global effort to keep the species alive. Just two animals remain, and both are female.
Read moreThirteen rhinos have been poached in Botswana in the last two months, the tourism ministry said, as the government tries to crackdown on hunting of the endangered species.
Read moreA rare southern white rhino was born at a zoo in Belgium, boosting efforts to save the endangered species, the park said on Monday.
Read moreThe Sumatran rhinoceros has become extinct in Malaysia, after the last of the species in the country succumbed to cancer.
Read moreMalawi has received 17 black rhinos from South Africa under a program to replenish the endangered species which temporarily went extinct in the southern African country in the 1980s, a conservation charity said Wednesday.
Read moreAn Irish national who smuggled a cup made of rhinoceros horn out of the United States was sentenced Tuesday to 14 months in prison by a federal judge in Miami.
Read moreThe Trump administration said Friday it will issue a permit to let a Michigan man import the skin, skull and horns of a black rhinoceros he shot in Africa last year.
Read moreVeterinarians have successfully harvested eggs from the last two surviving northern white rhinos, taking them one step closer to bringing the species back from the brink of extinction, scientists said in Kenya on Friday.
Read moreOfficials say five critically endangered eastern black rhinos from wildlife parks in three European countries are ready for a transport back to their natural habitat in Rwanda, where the entire rhino population was wiped out during the genocide in the 1990s.
Read moreReporting a 25 percent decrease from the number slain in 2017 for their horns, South Africa’s environmental affairs ministry said Wednesday that poachers killed 769 rhinos last year.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Monday upheld the conviction and enhanced sentence given to a man who sold black rhino horns.
Read moreChina says it will allow trading in products made from endangered tigers and rhinos under “special circumstances,” reversing a previous ban and bringing condemnation from conservation groups.
Read moreA southern white rhino has become pregnant through artificial insemination at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park — giving hope for efforts to save a subspecies of one of the world’s most recognizable animals, researchers announced Thursday.
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