Articles for Intl Rhino Foundation

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

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.

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

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.

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."

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.

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

Two poachers involved in killing one-horned rhinos in Kaziranga National Park were on Wednesday arrested in Assam's Karbi Anglong district.

A day after two poachers confessed to having paid Rs 1 lakh to a police official as protection money, Assam police today ordered an inquiry into the allegation.

Police bust a rhino poaching syndicate and are now hoping to link the men to a spate of poaching incidents in KwaZulu-Natal.

In order to keep a check on poachers, authorities at Kaziranga National Park in Assam, acquired a floating anti-poaching squad to patrol the river banks surrounding the park.

An on-the-run dreaded poacher, Rajen Killing, surrendered in the wee hours today with the promise of helping Kaziranga National Park in its anti-poaching drive.

A major wildlife poacher is believed to have been arrested in India, nearly three years after he dramatically escaped from authorities.