Articles for Intl Rhino Foundation

A Huge Number of Rhinos - 45 white rhinos and two endangered black rhinos - have been poached in the Kruger National Park in the past 15 months, Water and Environment Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said in a report that was tabled yesterday.

The future of one of the world's rarest animals, the Borneo rhino, depends on action taken to protect the forest reserves where it lives, conservation group WWF said Wednesday.

It is not a flattering photograph but it is a cause for celebration.

The five-day-old baby rhino at Nakitoma in Nakasongola district is playful and adorable, the sanctuary managers have said.

Suspected poachers have killed a Rhino inside Maasai Mara Game Reserve.

The Sime Darby Foundation (SDF) and Sabah government will set up a sanctuary in the Tabin Forest Reserve for sumatran rhinos to protect the wildlife from extinction.

Rhino horn and ivory worth an estimated R850000 was stolen in a dramatic heist at the Addo Elephant National Park.

The first baby rhino to be born in Uganda for decades has raised hopes for the future of an animal that was wiped out during the bloody regime of former dictator Idi Amin, officials said Monday.

The residents of 12 villages in Manas have pledged to guard an 8km stretch of solar-powered electric fence from Madulijhar to Katajhar in the Bansbari range of the national park to stop straying of animals into human habitat.

Rhino poaching has declined significantly in different parts of the country following a massive awareness campaign and recent joint operations by the country’s security forces.

It may be hard to imagine but it is true that the species that rubbed shoulders with the prehistoric dinosaurs are once again in great risk of being wiped out due to the avarice of human beings.

The zoo keepers of the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens and the Jacksonville Chapter of the American Association of Zookeepers (AAZK), invite the public to AAZK’s 19th annual Bowling for Rhinos event at 7:00 p.m., Saturday, July 25th at Jax Lanes West.

Lion Country Safari staff members will strike big while raising money for rhino conservation organizations. On June 25, animal keepers and other participants will sponsor a bowling fundraiser to promote awareness and funds in support of Earth's second largest land animal, the rhinoceros.

With Kaziranga National Park, home to the largest number of one-horned rhinos in the world, getting maximum attention for conservation and protection, poachers have shifted focus to Orang National Park in northern Assam.

The new rhino at the Oklahoma City Zoo is being kept off display because of a minor toe fracture.

A female rhino was killed by poachers in the Orang National Park in northern Assam on Saturday evening.

Tourism entrepreneurs here have been unable to make tourists lengthen the stay of tourists in this popular destination, thanks to a dwindling number of rhinos, a major attraction, and lack of fresh programmes.

Wildlife authorities want to divide the lone herd of endangered Javan rhinoceros into two populations by 2012 in the hope that this will hasten reproduction, Ujung Kulon National Park spokesman Enjat Sudrajat said at the Banten park on Sunday.

Conservationists raised the alarm Thursday for Zimbabwe's rare rhinos after a sharp increase in poaching because of a breakdown of law enforcement in this troubled southern African country.

An armed soldier was among four suspected poachers shot dead this week in Ruware Conservancy in Chiredzi.