It is believed the horns have medicinal properties, and they fetch huge prices on the black market, particularly in Asia.

At Least 100 People Killed in Armed Attack in NigeriaAt least 100 people were killed in an overnight attack in Benue State. Herders and farmers have been fighting over access to land and water, ...

Analysis - Black and white rhino populations in the Greater Kruger (Kruger National Park and surrounding reserves) in South Africa have plummeted from over 10,000 rhinos in 2010 to around 2,600 in ...

The dehorning of rhinos resulted in a nearly 80-percent reduction in the poaching of the animals during a seven-year study.

When Marais approaches the unconscious rhino, he covers its eyes to protect them and then uses a chainsaw to cut off its ...

Black and white rhino populations in the Greater Kruger (Kruger National Park and surrounding reserves) in South Africa have ...

Poaching is a major threat to rhinoceroses around the world. In South Africa alone, more than 400 rhinos are killed every ...

Together, managers and scientists gathered seven years of rhino poaching data across 2.4 million hectares in the north-eastern region of South Africa and western Mozambique. During this time ...

A study published in the academic journal Science has found that cutting off the horns of rhinos in Africa leads to a ...

Cutting off the horns of sedated rhinos with a chainsaw has been viewed by wildlife conservationists in Africa for more than ...

Rhino poaching has been reduced by almost 80% since ... of data across 11 reserves in the Greater Kruger region of South Africa between 2017 and 2023 by an international team, including Oxford ...