Articles for Intl Rhino Foundation

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.

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.

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

Environment and Natural Resources Management Minister Francis Nhema has called for stiffer punishment of poachers.

Wildlife officials in India’s Kaziranga National Park discover grass laced with poisoned salt - the latest attempt by poachers to kill rhino.

Wildlife officials have made a major breakthrough following a spate of rhino poaching that occurred nationwide.

THE long-awaited breakthrough, which police and conservationists have been expecting in the rhino poaching epidemic in KwaZulu-Natal, came yesterday when four men were caught red-handed in a vehicle in possession of two fresh rhino horns.

Two men were arrested for allegedly poaching rhino at Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife between Ulundi and Melmoth, a game reserve official said on Monday.

Police on Wednesday arrested Arjun Sen, a resident of Khanguri of Rolpa district, from the Bhurigaun area on the charge of poaching a one-horned rhino.

Rhino poaching worldwide is poised to hit a 15-year-high driven by Asian demand for horns, according to new research.

Rhinos are in a "desperate situation" with poaching reaching its worst levels in many years, conservationists have warned.

Rhino poaching around the world is set to reach a 15-year high, conservation groups have warned.

Poachers seeking horn for traditional medicines are driving once thriving populations of rhinos in Africa and Asia toward extinction, global nature protection groups said on Thursday.

A CIRENCESTER man accused of stealing a rhinoceros horn worth thousands of pounds is wanted by police for failing to attend two court hearings.

A R20 000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the culprits who shot dead a black rhino in KwaZulu-Natal, Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife (EKZNW) said on Thursday.

Maoists´ People´s Liberation Army (PLA) has expelled one of its commanders involved in smuggling rhino horns, the PLA´s Seventh Division said.

PORT Elizabeth police are still hunting for poachers who have slaughtered two white rhinos in Eastern Cape game reserves.

The festive season brings the number of the animals poached in South Africa in the past year close to 100.

A Chinese doctor and two other Chinese nationals have been arrested after they were found in possession of four black rhinoceros horns.

Seven men accused of poaching rhinos around Limpopo will appear in the Thabazimbi Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.