Special Summit to be Held Over Rhino Killings

The recent spate of illegal rhino killings across South Africa has prompted the Department of Water and Environmental Affairs to convene a special summit this week in a bid to fight the poaching of rhinoceros.

WWF Launches Rhino Anti-poaching Campaign

WWF, the global conservation organization, has launched a campaign to raise support and funding for those rangers who put their lives on the line to protect Africa’s rhinos. How People Arrived Here: poaching organization

CITES Backs Better Rhino Trade Protections Amid Global Poaching Crisis

WWF welcomes a decree for better trade protections for rhinos made during the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meeting, which comes amid a global poaching crisis.

Kenya Records Highest Illegal Killings of Rhino in Recent Times

Kenya has recorded the highest illegal rhino killings measured in recent times with poaching hitting the critical 1 percent of the rhino population in 2009 for the first time in 25 years, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) revealed on Monday.

Asia And Africa See a Surge in Rhino Poaching

Rhino poaching worldwide is on the rise, according to a new report by TRAFFIC and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The trade is being driven by Asian demand for horns and is made worse by increasingly sophisticated poachers,...

Dogs Being Used to Find Out the State of Vietnam’s Critically Endangered Rhinos

Highly trained detection dogs are being used help to determine the population status of the Javan rhino in Vietnam, in an attempt to save one of the world’s rarest mammals from extinction.

Rhino Recovered After 14 Day Trek Across India

A young rhino that went on a 14-day trek across India, through villages as well as countryside, was finally persuaded to abandon its wanderlust by conservation specialists and return to where its journey began. The five-year-old rhino, one of the two...