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Moving endangered rhinos to new areas is a vital part of their conservation. War-torn helicopters from the Vietnam war are ...
Rhinos are poached in enormous quantities to meet the demand in Asia for rhino-horn-based traditional “medicine.” As Asia gets richer, the demand gets greater — and the rhinos are on their ...
Then China banned rhino horn from traditional medicine, and Yemen forbade its use for ceremonial dagger handles. All signs seemed to point to better days. But in 2008 the number of poached rhinos ...
The value of proper training added to on-the-job gut feel paid off for two Kruger National Park (KNP) staffers with an 11-year sentence handed to a suspected rhino poacher this month, five years after ...
Plenty else could go wrong during a rhino pregnancy ... Najin and Fatu's main handler Zacharia Mutai argued it was humans who poached northern whites to the edge of extinction, so it is our ...
Kenya Wildlife Service announced that despite the conservation threats posed by the Covid-19 pandemic on the endangered species, no rhino was poached in 2020, a feat that was last achieved in the ...
Largely, rhinos are poached for the demand for rhino horn in China, Vietnam and Laos. “We were doing really well,” says Ives. “But then came the vicious, highly well-organised and well ...
South Africa's rhino poaching declined by 16 percent last year when a total of 420 rhinos were poached for their horns, 79 less than those poached in 2023, according to Dion George, minister of ...
Kruger National Park, one of the country's primary rhino hotspots, reported 88 poached rhinos for 2024—an increase from 78 in 2023. The rise in poaching was particularly concerning during ...
Kenya Wildlife Service announced that despite the conservation threats posed by the Covid-19 pandemic on the endangered species, no rhino was poached in 2020, a feat that was last achieved in the ...