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THE year-old black rhino calf which was orphaned when poachers brutally slaughtered its mother at Kwantu Game Reserve over the Easter weekend has been killed by lions.

Global Positioning System (GPS) devices have been installed in the neck of the one-horned rhinos found in Chitwan National Park (CNP) for tracking them.

Milking a rhinoceros by hand sounds scary but that's what Hamilton Zoo staff did when a baby rhino was born almost blind a few weeks back.

Efforts to save the critically endangered Sumatran rhino in Indonesia have hit a major stumbling block.

After an inordinate delay, another stage of the rhino translocation programme involving two protected areas of Assam, could start this month itself.

Performing IVF on a giant - and dangerous - mammal is a tricky but exciting business, writes Deborah Smith.

WEST Midland Safari Park has introduced Indian Rhinoceros to its collection for the first time since it opened 37 years ago.

The Kenya Wildlife Service plans to conduct a census at the Ngulia Rhino Sanctuary in the vast Tsavo West National.

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Zimbabwe is among 18 countries being investigated for complicity in a racket involving the illegal trade in traditional medicines containing protected wildlife products, the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) that is coordinating the probe has announced.

Conservation Wildlife charities are using military kit and know-how in bloody battles to save species at risk.

The rhinoceros walking down the road at South Africa's largest game reserve had no horns, one of the few to survive a surge in poaching that has sent killings to a 15-year high.

A carcass of a male rhino was found in Assam's Kaziranga National Park today.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has expressed hope that Assam would soon come forward with a long-term rhino conservation project to protect the animal.

At least 20 kg of rhino skin was recovered from a villager near the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in upper Assam today, a Forest officer said.

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.