Officials 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.
Read moreA tiny wildlife sanctuary in northeastern India has reported a jump in the number of one-horned rhinoceroses.
Read moreThe health of the world’s last male northern white rhino has deteriorated, bringing the rhino subspecies a step closer to extinction caused by poaching.
Read moreA leading American investigator into the illegal ivory and rhino horn trade has been found stabbed to death in his home, Kenyan police and officials said Monday.
Read moreAn Irish national pleaded guilty in Miami on Friday to participating in a plot to smuggle a libation cup fashioned from the horn of an endangered rhinoceros.
Read moreA federal judge handed a two-year prison sentence Monday to a New York art dealer who illegally trafficking horns from endangered black rhinoceros.
Read moreA developmental abnormality that contributed to the extinction of woolly rhinos could serve as an indicator of at-risk populations among modern rhinoceros species, several of which are already considered endangered or threatened.
Read moreLawyers for a rhino breeder in South Africa say bidding will start Wednesday in an online auction of 264 rhino horns after a court ordered the government to hand over a permit allowing the sale to proceed.
Read moreThe world’s last male northern white rhino has joined the Tinder dating app as wildlife experts make a last-chance breeding effort to keep his species alive.
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A Czech zoo is taking no chances after the killing of a rhinoceros at a wildlife park near Paris by assailants who stole the animal’s horn.
Read moreSouth Africa says poachers killed 1,054 rhinos in the country last year, a 10.3 percent drop from 2015.
Read moreA Beverly Hills auctioneer will appear before a New York federal judge next week on charges of conspiring to smuggle 15 horns from endangered rhinoceros abroad.
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