Articles for Intl Rhino Foundation

There is a way of thinking within South African environmental authorities that promotes the killing of rhinos rather than protecting and respecting them, Animal Rights Africa said on Monday.

27 Rhinos Killed In Kruger Park, Poaching Increasing

WRSA director Wicus Pretorius said the sustainable use of wildlife was a basic principle.

SANParks' (South African National Parks) decision to sell white rhino from the Kruger National Park could not be faulted, Wildlife Ranching South Africa (WRSA) said on Thursday.

A blistering attack has been launched on the Kruger National Park by animal welfare organisations worried about the fate of the wild animals, specifically white rhino.

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.

AT LEAST one of the Dwesa Nature Reserve rhino shot and killed in a legal but highly controversial hunt had its head and feet chopped off and its penis and testicles removed. The carcass was then left to rot where it had fallen.

Rhino poaching in South Africa - The poachers story

High airfreight charges may delay the transportation back to the country rhinos that were sent to South Africa in the 1980s, to save them from poachers.

Every September, the Kenya Wildlife Service hosts their Cycle with the Rhino 50 km (31 mile) race through Lake Nakuru, and oh what an event it is!

The first of the five rhinoceroses that were sent to South Africa in the eighties is expected to be flown back into the country next month.

THE rhino hunt at Dwesa Nature Reserve on the Wild Coast has been strongly condemned by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) and the Democratic Alliance (DA).

You can save a species while you laze on the beach - as long as you pick the right wildlife trip

Wildlife experts say they've seen a dramatic increase in rhinoceros killed by poachers in South African game reserves.

They have been hunted almost to extinction and are still threatened by poachers but it's not all bad news

There has been a dramatic increase in rhinoceros-poaching in South Africa, with at least 76 animals recorded killed last year, according to the environment ministry.

At least 76 white and black rhinos were killed by poachers in South Africa's reserves, national parks and on private land last year, illustrating the sudden bloody assault on the country's rhino populations for their valuable horns - but the figure could be much higher.

A task team has been formed to track down a suspected poaching syndicate following the slaughter at the weekend of a rhino at a private Eastern Cape game reserve.

Two rhinoceros have been found shot dead in two private game reserves in the Eastern Cape since December, police said on Sunday.

Tanzania is losing a big number of wild animals owing to poaching activities that have delt a blow to tourism, the country`s leading foreign exchange earner which is also adversely affected by the current world economic crunch.