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It's one of the most ambitious wildlife relocation projects in East Africa in the past 50 years. Thirty-two critically endangered eastern black rhinos are being moved from South Africa to their former habitat in the Serengeti.

A huge team of pupils from Neston Primary School have been decorating the mini rhino as part of this summer's Rhino Mania event in Chester.

The second largest rhino population among all the biological parks in the world exists in the Patna Zoo. There are at present six male and as many female rhinos at the Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park. Next year three more are expected.

They're welcoming a family of rhinos at the White Oak Conservation Center in Yulee.

SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK, Tanzania – A group of Tanzanian rhinos, extinct in their natural habitat, was airlifted home Friday from South Africa where some of the species were taken two decades ago.

Pretoria — More than two decades after being brought to South Africa, a group of black rhinos returned home to Tanzania today.

Ujung Kulon National Park (TNUK) has launched a joint team consisting of 80 officers from the TNUK, the Indonesian Rhino Foundation and the Bogor Agriculture Institute (IPB) to Ujung Kulon, which is located on the western tip of Java and is one of only two remaining natural habitats of the Javan rhinoceros.

Four poachers were killed in a gunfight with wildlife rangers at the famed Kaziranga National Park in Assam Friday, three days after seven poachers were arrested on the fringe of the sanctuary, officials said.

Harare — THE Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority has tightened its regulations to stop dealers from exporting raw ivory, The Financial Gazette can reveal.

Six Eastern Black Rhinos will be airlifted from South Africa to the Serengeti plains in Tanzania on Friday. They are part of an ambitious effort to double the number of rare Black Rhinos in the Serengeti.

While the Central Statistics Bureau is busy administering a national census, the Ujung Kulong National Park is conducting a similar survey to determine the population of endangered Javanese rhinos in Pandeglang, which lies on the western tip of Java.

A nexus between a section of forest guards and poachers involved in rhino poaching in Kaziranga National Park has come to light with the arrest of seven persons, including a retired forest guard on Tuesday, police sources said.

Police seized $1 million worth of rhino horns and ivory and shut down an illegal ivory factory in a sweep across southern Africa, international police agency Interpol said on Tuesday.

A transnational operation co-ordinated by INTERPOL targeting wildlife crime across southern Africa has resulted in the location and closure of an illegal ivory factory, the seizure of nearly 400 kilos of ivory and rhino horn with a market value of more than one million dollars, as well as the arrest of 41 people.

A bored park official drives down a dirt road, ignoring the watching eyes of the Vietnamese as he travels by. He has been out into this remote national park because of a report some villagers called in, talking about some large mammal corpse found, decayed and rotten, lying in the mud. The creature was a Javan Rhinoceros: an extremely rare, possibly the rarest, animal on the Earth. Why was it lying dead in the mud? One simple clue gave the answer: it had no horn.

NAMIBIA'S black rhino population is protected by the global body that regulates international trade in endangered plant and animal species.

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A Javan Rhino was found dead late last week in Cat Tien National Park in, Lam Dong Province, Viet Nam, further endangering the population of the world’s rarest rhinoceros.

ABOUT R45million worth of assets belonging to alleged rhino poachers were seized by the Asset Forfeiture Unit at the weekend.

World famous race raises money for rhino conservation.