Articles for Intl Rhino Foundation

The forest department has decided to stop elephant safari in Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary following the recent incidents of rhino poaching. This has robbed the sanctuary of one of its biggest attractions.

A bull rhino that had possibly been shot by poachers fell into the Torsha river in Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary and drowned on Saturday morning. Another rhino carcass — that of a female — was found deep inside the forest a few hours later.

A fierce turf war is raging among rhinos in the Dudhwa National Park.

Forest officials have been able to locate the rhinoceros found missing from the Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary near Siltorsha river in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district.

An endangered one-horned rhino and a tiger have been found dead in the Kaziranga national park in north-east India, officials say.

A male rhino in Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in Assam was killed and its horn taken away by poachers, who were involved in two encounters with foresters in the habitat of the great Indian one-horn rhino.

Poachers have killed two rhinos and robbed them off their precious horns in a span of ten days in Chitwan National Park (CNP), Nagarik daily reported.

Banke has his clan growing. The dusky old rhino, now 30 plus, has seen his fourth generation set in.

The rhino is safe. The tiger is not.

A 17-year-old girl of Mangalpur-5, Chitwan, died on Friday night after a rhino attacked her.

After a recent poaching incident left an adult one-horned rhino dead in Kaziranga National Park, Unesco's World Heritage Committee (WHC) has asked New Delhi to strengthen the anti-poaching mechanism by using better equipment in the park, which is 250 km from here on the southern banks of the Brahmaputra.

Authorities in Assam have enforced speed regulations on a highway along the famed Kaziranga National Park to prevent vehicles from hitting animals fleeing the sanctuary to escape a flood, officials said here Monday. Kaziranga is the world's largest sanctuary of the endangered one-horned rhino

Kaziranga National Park authorities have put up barricades to slow down vehicles to ensure safe passage for migrating animals.

Endangered Greater One-Horned Rhinos become extra vulnerable when the waters of the Brahmaputra River flood Kaziranga National Park.

To ensure a conducive habitat and avoid inbreeding problems, the rhino rehabilitation project has kicked off at the Dudhwa National Park. There are also plans to introduce more rhinos from other states like Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal.

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.

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.

Over a year ago, seven rhinos left the Bardiya National Park (BNP) and landed in an Indian sanctuary.

The Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros is an endangered species, but the good news is that three sanctuaries in India are having some success in increasing its population.

In a boost to rhino conservation programme at the famous Dudhwa national park, a uni-horned rhino has given birth to a calf, taking the population of the endangered animal to 28.