Can the rhino be saved by legalizing horn trade?
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
A fierce debate is raging over whether legalizing rhino horns will save the poached and plundered African rhino.
The pictures and videos from the savannahs of the Kruger National Park in South Africa are gruesome and disturbing. In one, an adult rhino h
Rhino ambassadors vow to stamp out poaching
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
The second group of community rhino ambassadors introduced to the public on Friday has vowed to pull out all stops in order to stamp out the unrelenting rhino poaching.
Rhino horn isn’t a medicine – WWF
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
As South Africa’s rhino population continues to dwindle under a constant barrage of poaching, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is appealing to Vietnam, via a new public service announcement, to stop buying and consuming rhino horn.
Alien plant to blame for rhino ‘pink lips’
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
The surprise discovery of rhinos with bright pink lips and swollen eyes in northern KwaZulu-Natal has raised alarm bells over the potentially devastating spread of an alien invader plant which can kill cattle and decimate the fields of peasant farmers.
Two poachers arrested for rhino killings in Assam
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Two poachers were arrested over the weekend by forest department officials in Assam's Kaziranga wildlife sanctuary for attempting to poach single-horned rhinoceros.
White rhino born at Taronga Western Plains Zoo
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
A New South Wales zoo is celebrating the birth of a white rhino calf.
The still unnamed male was born at Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo in the early hours of last Tuesday.
Palm Oil in American Stores Sending the Sumatran Rhino Into Extinction
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Palm oil kills but with apologies to the orangutans, they'll have to get behind the line to extinction after the Sumatran rhino.
Rhino rangers up their game
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Guerrilla tactics and clandestine intelligence gathering are being used in the fight against rhino poachers in the Kruger National Park.
Dubbo rhinos welcome 50kg bundle of joy
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
With a nub of a nose, wrinkled skin and grey complexion, you'd think only a mother could love this face.
Zoo receives 2nd rhinoceros
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
The Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens has received a second rhinoceros, PJ, who came to the Zoo from the White Oaks Conservation Center in Yulee, Fla.