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

But in a 3,400-kilometer (2,100-mile) journey that involved crates, cranes, trucks, and a Boeing 747, 70 captive bred ...

This mother rhino, walking with her calf, has had her horn removed proactively, a tactic that can reduce poaching rates. Tim Kuiper By Jake Buehler June 5, 2025 at 2:00 pm ...

From caring for household pets to wild animals, a Purdue-University educated veterinarian takes her skills beyond central ...

The 30-year-old rhino bull is blind, after he lost one eye in a fight with another rhino in 2008, and the other due to a ...

Rwanda said on Tuesday that 70 white rhinos had been successfully relocated to the Great Lakes nation, after a journey of some 3,000 kilometres from South Africa.

COLUMN. According to a study conducted in 11 South African reserves between 2017 and 2023, dehorning reduced poaching by 78%.

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 2023 ...

White rhinos face many threats, including poaching for their horns, loss of habitat, and climate change. There are two subspecies of white rhinos: the northern and southern white rhinos.

“It is a big part of what a rhino is, having a horn,” Kuiper said. “So having to remove it is kind of a necessary evil, if I can put it that way. But it’s very effective. There’s no doubt it saved ...

There are around 17,500 white rhinos and 6,500 black rhinos left in the world, with black rhino numbers reduced from 70,000 in 1970 to less than 2,500 by the time poaching reached a crisis point ...