Articles for Intl Rhino Foundation

After five days, the dogs found seven samples of rhino feces which can be examined for further information about the animals.

Highly trained detection dogs are being used help to determine the population status of the Javan rhino in Vietnam, in an attempt to save one of the world’s rarest mammals from extinction.

International scientists and zoo experts started together with Malaysian governmental and conservation organisations an extensive programme to protect the Sabah rhino.

Indonesia’s endangered rhinos are increasingly threatened by declining food resources coupled with a projected water scarcity due to climate change that would dry out the rhinos’ wallows in jungles, a study reveals.

Inside Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam, a rare subspecies of the critically endangered Javan Rhino still survives. Once thought to be extinct, it is estimated that there are only 3 - 5 of these delicate creatures left in the world.

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.

Video traps to monitor Javanese rhinos in West Java’s Ujung Kulon National Park are helping conservation groups protect one of the country’s most threatened animals.

Time and space are running out for the Javan Rhinoceros — the most endangered mammal in the world.

Spy-in-the-jungle video footage has provided a rare window on the lives of one of the world's most elusive animals.

New infra-red footage released Thursday captures hitherto unseen images of elusive Javan rhinos, the most endangered mammal in the world with less than 60 individuals believed to remain alive.

With only 60 Javanese rhinos left in the world, the chances of seeing one are pretty slim, but that wasn't going to stop me from trying. These giant beasts are confined to a remote corner of west Java in the Unesco-listed Ujung Kulon National Park.

The residents of two villages near Cat Tien National Park in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong where a group of endangered one-horned rhinos live have yet to be relocated out of the area, despite a government programme that called for their resettlement.

wwf-camera-for-monitoring-rhinoUjung Kulon National Park—WWF-Indonesia and Ujung Kulon National Park officials have recently installed another 30 video camera traps in order to record the distribution and behavior of Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus) that live in deep in the the jungles of the national park.

The Lam Dong Province People’s Committee recently announced it would legally recognize 52 Stieng and Chau Ma ethnic families, who for generations have inhabited a 320- hectare area in Phuoc Cat No. 2 Commune of Cat Tien District. The area is also home to the Cat Loc Rhinoceros Reserve.

Four calves of the world's rarest species of rhino have been found in remote jungle on Indonesia's Java island, giving hope to efforts to save them from extinction, an official said Tuesday.

To record the population of Javanese rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus), the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is planning to add another 34 video trapping cameras in the middle of the Ujung Kulon forest in Banten.

Jakarta - The world's rarest rhinoceros has been captured on videotape by specially designed video cameras in the jungles of Indonesia's Java, an international environmental group said Thursday. The female rhino, which was accompanied by a calf, promptly charged the camera, sending it flying in Ujung Kulon National Park in western tip of Java island, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said in a statement. "It's very unusual to catch a glimpse of the Javan rhinos deep inside the rain ...

JAKARTA (AFP) - Hidden cameras in the jungles of Indonesia's Java island have captured rare footage of the world's most threatened rhino, boosting efforts to save it from extinction, the environmental group WWF said Thursday. Two camera traps set up by the environmental group in the remote Ujung Kulon national park have yielded new footage of the endangered Javan rhinoceros, said Adhi Hariyadi, leader of the WWF project. The footage will help conservationists fighting to save the ...

Five trained jumbo elephants have been shifted from Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary in Bengal to the Dudhwa National Park in Uttar Pradesh by forest department to monitor the rhino rehabilitation centre and the tiger reserve.

A new picture of Javan rhino, a mother and a newborn calf, was recently recorded using a camera trap set up by WWF scientists in Ujung Kulon National Park. The camera which was set up in Citadahan area on November 2007 shows a calf with an estimated age 4 to 6 months next to its mother. The calf presence was first identified on October 30, 2007 when WWF and partners found its foot print sized 15/16 cm around Citadahan watershed area. The finding shows a sign that the endangered Javan Rhino is ...