The latest report on rhino poaching in South Africa reveals a decrease in overall numbers for 2024, but ongoing challenges ...

Poaching devastates the rhino population and has broader ecological and socio-economic implications. This article delves into ...

South Africa's rhino poaching declined by 16 percent last year when a total of 420 rhinos were poached for their horns, 79 ...

South Africa continues to see a downward trend in rhino poaching, with statistics showing that 420 of the animals were ...

assisting in the poaching of rhino and trafficking of rhino horns. “However, the time that it takes to finalise many of these cases does remain a concern and unfortunately where the suspects are ...

Rhino horns are poached for use around the world ... making it an "elegant solution to a very real problem", said Futurism. Poaching is a "significant problem" in South Africa, which is home ...

Both accused were convicted in September last year, on charges falling under the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act 10 of 2004 (illegal hunting of rhinos) and under the Riotous ...

“In October, however, poaching syndicates adapted their tactics ... including conspiring to traffic rhino horns, money laundering about R1 000 000 in proceeds from rhino horn deals, and ...

The Skukuza Regional Court sentenced 38-year-old Silas Mathebula to 30 years of direct imprisonment after finding him guilty ...

Poaching crews often pay trackers to find ... have been implicated in plots to smuggle horns out of the country. Not all rhino horns enter Vietnam illegally. South African law, which complies ...

Poaching deaths have since declined steadily ... a 50-year-old Congolese citizen who had become a major role-player in the buying of rhino horns in Gauteng. He was sentenced in January to ...