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The Orang National Park in Darrang district, the only natural habitat of the one-horned rhino on the northern bank of the Brahmaputra, reportedly saw 172 foreign tourists visiting the park during the last tourist season from November to April.

When Archie the 4,000-pound rhino escaped Thursday morning from his overnight stall at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, staffers had to use sedatives and tug-of-war techniques to bring him home.

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A wildlife conservationist from Assam, Bibhab Kumar Talukdar, has been appointed the vice-secretary of the Indonesian Rhino Task Force which has been entrusted with the responsibility of ensuring conservation of the critically-endangered Javan and Sumatran rhino in Indonesia.

An elite group of government and private environmental professionals have formed a task team to combat further rhino poaching amid fears that syndicates operating nationally are based in Port Elizabeth.

An elite group of government and private environmental professionals have formed a task team to combat further rhino poaching amid fears that syndicates operating nationally are based in Port Elizabeth.

A black rhinoceros calf that has been stealing hearts since her birth at Taronga Western Plains Zoo 10 weeks ago has been named Kufara.

GUWAHATI: A spotted deer died at the Assam state zoo on Tuesday after it was attacked by a rhinoceros inside their composite enclosure.

The Indian one-horned rhino which is the pride of India in general and Assam in particular is facing a serious threat from the occurrence of annual floods. .

Special police unit, The Hawks, have arrested a 33-year old man for trading in ivory and rhino horns at a shopping mall in Temba, north of Pretoria.

For the first time, scientists have put a figure on how much it would cost to learn about the conservation status of millions of species, some of which have yet to be identified. The price tag is US$60 million, according to a team of scientists, including those from IUCN and Conservation International, who presented their case in this week's Science magazine in an article called "The Barometer of Life."

That was the conundrum for zookeepers who had the challenge of moving the one-tonne rhino from its Scottish base all the way to the Netherlands.

Sophisticated "mafias" have turned their eyes south and are behind the increase in the number of rhinos poached in South Africa over the past three years.

An impressive array of game is up for auction at Shamwari Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape on May 22.

Poachers killed a 20-year-old male rhino near the office of Chitwan National Park (CNP) on Wednesday.

Andazi, a 3-year-old female eastern black rhinoceros, is settling into her new home at Zoo Atlanta Thursday.

KASHOBA, Swaziland — When Thuli Makama set out to help struggling communities in Swaziland, she envisioned mediating agreements allowing people to collect firewood from wildlife parks. Instead, she ended up fighting to save lives.

The South African government has allocated two million rands (about $270,000) to set up a unit to tackle wildlife crimes, mainly rhino poaching in the country.

A black rhinoceros calf has made its public debut at Australia's Taronga Western Plains Zoo, watched by hordes of excited children on school holidays.

Last weekend, good news arrived in this correspondent’s email inbox, when the Ol Pejeta Conservancy announced that with the recent birth of another Southern White the total rhino population on the estate is now standing at a proud 100, of which four are of the rarest kind, the Northern White, 12 of the Southern White variety, and 84 of the endangered Eastern Black kind.