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Organized gangs decimate Zimbabwe herds and may wipe out South Africa's endangered black rhinos within a decade. Ranchers trying to save the animals find heartbreak amid carcasses shorn of horns.

THE EASTERN Cape’s Green Scorpions and the police organised crime unit have played a major part in cracking down a syndicate, which trades in illegal rhino horn smuggling all over South Africa.

On Monday 8 March 2010 two female Rhinos were illegally killed on the Rietvlei Nature Reserve. This is part of the illegal Rhino horn trade currently running in South Africa.

In the sun-baked plains of Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, the vegetation is starting to wilt and the water bodies are drying up.

Last June, a group of five men drove into South Africa's Addo National Park and held up the rangers' station at gunpoint.

Thula Thula game reserve cares for rhinos until they are old enough to be released into the wild

A new safari lodge in the Maasai Mara National Reserve is dogged by concerns that it will endanger the survival of the black rhino.

Poachers have killed 14 rhinoceroses in the national parks and other forest areas of Assam in the year 2009.

Three people were held in connection to Rhino horn smuggling.

The Border Security Force (BSF) personnel have been deployed at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam to protect endangered rhinos from poachers.

The second phase of the ambitious rhino translocation programme has hit a roadblock with a South African company expressing its inability to supply ethorphine, an immobilising drug, to the Assam forest department.

Assam Forest and Environment Minister Rockybul Hussain on Friday informed the Assembly that the present strength of frontline staff of the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) was not sufficient to protect rhinos and other animals there.

FOR an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the figure of Juno and the hide of a rhinoceros, declared Ethel Barrymore.

Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito Friday visited endangered rhinos at a game reserve in Kenya's Rift Valley before planting a tree here with Nobel Prize laureate Wangari Maathai.

The slaughtering of rhinos in SA is continuing unabatedly.

Meet Zawadi, a female black rhino who is a new arrival at the park.

An elephant was killed and a rhino injured by poachers in Assam, Forest department officials said today.

Rhinos, among the world's most endangered and iconic animals, are being farmed on Chinese wildlife reserves to harvest their horns, a report by international conservation monitors has suggested.

POLICE have seized tiger bones, anteater scales and bear gall bladders in an international operation against the use of endangered plants and animals in traditional medicine.

Poachers shot at and injured a rhino inside Kaziranga National Park last evening.