Articles for Intl Rhino Foundation

An international crime syndicate is behind an escalation in poaching in Zimbabwe which has slaughtered 65 elephants and 30 rhinos this year, a wildlife official said Monday.

Forest warden Narendra Man Babu Pradhan is on the frontline of Nepal's battle against poachers and he grimaces as he recalls the recent discovery of an injured rhino whose horn had been cut off.

Zimbabwe has lost about 200 rhinoceroses -- a quarter of its total population -- to rampant poaching over the last three years as security and the economy deteriorated, state media reported on Tuesday.

That poaching is rampant in India is hardly news and it would be an understatement to say that the menace is on the rise.

Restating its stance in favor of tiger farming, the Chinese delegation at the ongoing Kathmandu Global Tiger Workshop said Wednesday that China cannot put an end to its tiger farming as medicine produced from tiger parts is supplied to 60 countries.

SA National Parks (Sanparks) boss Dr David Mabunda has declared war on rhino and wildlife poachers in the flagship Kruger National Park following the slaughter of more than 90 rhinos across the country this year.

Police and the wildlife crime control bureau have launched a massive manhunt to trace the subscriber of a mobile number which was recovered from a poacher who was shot dead at Orang Rajiv Gandhi National Park recently.

Alarmed at the spurt in rhino poaching cases at Assam's Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park, the Centre has constituted a two-member team to probe into the deaths of the one-horned endangered animal.

Forest guards shot dead a poacher and his accomplice but not before they killed a one-horn rhino in Assam’s Rajiv Gandhi Orang Wildlife Sanctuary late on Saturday night.

Carcass of a female rhinoceros without its horn was found in Kaziranga National Park in Assam today, park officials said.

South Africa is witnessing a massive surge in rhino poaching, an activity blamed on criminal syndicates striving to meet an "insatiable appetite" for rhinoceros horn in east Asia.

A carcass of a rhino without its horn was found at Pachim Nimali camp under Bagari Range under Kaziranga National Park today.

South African Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica has announced the formation of a new special investigations team dedicated to the eradication of rhino poaching.

The poaching of rhinos has increased in South Africa, Environmental Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said on Wednesday.

THE horrific killing of another rhinoceros by poachers (“Game parks under siege by rhino poachers,” Weekend Post, September 19) is a wake-up call that our natural resources are under threat from international criminal syndicates.

Three poachers, who had allegedly been involved in killing a rhino and chopping off of its horn at the Burapahar forest range of Kaziranga five days back, were arrested in Nagaon district on Thursday.

Some of the Eastern Cape’s top game reserves are “under siege” by brazen poachers targeting white rhino populations for their horns which fetch high prices on the black market.

Twelve people from Chitwan, Nawalparasi and Makawanpur were arrested by Chitwan National Park for smuggling the horns of the endangered one -horned rhinos. They were arrested within nine days in between September 10 and September 19.

Chitwan National Park (CNP) has arrested a dozen persons with arms in a span of two weeks in connection with recent incidents of rhino killings from various places in Chitwan, Makwanpur and Nawalparasi, Kantipur daily reported.

He never imagined that a guided tour of rhino dens could fetch him so much of money. For Balak Sing Teron, Rs 9,000 earned in one day is an "astronomical sum."