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 southern white rhinos were moved from South Africa to Rwanda’s Akagera National ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Dehorning Of Rhinos Can Help Save Them From Poachers, Suggests Study Black and white rhino populations in the Greater Kruger declined from over 10,000 rhinos in 2010 to around 2,600 in 2023.

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 ...

Cutting off the horns of sedated rhinos with a chainsaw has been viewed by wildlife conservationists in Africa for more than 30 years as a necessary evil to save the iconic endangered species from ...

But he ran out of money, and with the horn trade still banned under international law, he put the rhinos up for sale in 2023. He told Agence France-Presse (AFP) at the time that he’d spent ...