One company believes they can counter the excessive demand for rhino horns by creating synthetic versions In the early 20th century, there were more than 500,000 rhinos living throughout Africa and ...

Rhino horns are highly sought after on the black market, where the price per weight is comparable to the cost of gold and cocaine. Arrie Van Deventer, an orphanage founder, noted that cutting off ...

Criminal networks smuggling rhino horn out of Africa are turning it into jewellery to evade its detection in airports, an investigation has found. Wildlife trade monitoring network Traffic ...

Scientists in South Africa on Tuesday inserted radioisotopes into the horns of live rhinoceroses in a groundbreaking anti-poaching project. Twenty rhinos at The Rhino Orphanage in Mokopane ...

South Africa's battle to defeat rhino poaching ... poaching has fallen sharply from 2014 but has increased more recently. Rhino horns have been in huge demand in Asian states such as China and ...

At the bloody heart of this conflict is the rhino's horn, a prized ingredient in traditional Asian medicines. Though black market prices vary widely, as of last fall dealers in Vietnam quoted ...

Award-winning SA short film 'The Last Ranger' tells the harrowing tale of rhino poaching. The South African short film about ...

Geneva, Switzerland — Rhino poaching worldwide is poised to hit a 15-year-high driven by Asian demand for horns, according to new research. Poachers in Africa and Asia are killing an ever increasing ...

Kate Webb, an assistant professor at Duke University, have successfully trained these rats to detect the scents of pangolin scales, elephant ivory, rhino horn, and African blackwood, all of which ...