Articles for Intl Rhino Foundation

With rhinoceros horns under a world preservation order, increased use of plastic from China and lack of interest from young men, Yemen's "jambia" is under threat.

The rhino horn racket trail has led the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau to two senior government officials in Nagaland.

The rhino horn racket trail has led the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau to two senior government officials in Nagaland.

A man looking for boxes in a trash bin found the bottom jaw from a stolen rhinoceros skull at about 6:30 p.m. Thursday, an Albany Police Department official said.

The Vietnamese are getting into the rhino killing business by exploiting loopholes in South African trophy hunting laws. Most notable is the incident involving Dwesa Nature Reserve

A combination of ancient Chinese belief and modern financial speculation help to explain why rhinoceros populations are coming under renewed pressure from poachers.

Poaching rhinos for their valuable horns is reaching alarming proportions in South Africa.

Kenya police are looking for the people behind a shipment of 684 kilogrammes of ivory seized at Nairobi's main airport and destined to Bangkok, a police official said Wednesday.

Kenyan authorities have seized almost 700kg of ivory worth millions of dollars in a night-time raid at the country's main airport.

Police on Saturday arrested a hotel entrepreneur in Salyan on the charge trafficking rhino horn recovered in Darchula recently.

Two men were caught with a rhino horn in Darchula on Saturday.

Researchers believe the huge increase in rhino poaching in southern Africa is being fuelled by the Vietnamese, after senior government officials claimed rhino horn had "cured" them of serious diseases.

A 35-year-old man was arrested on Monday after he was caught trying to sell two rhino horns in Amalinda, East London police said.

Poachers from China and Vietnam have found a loophole for obtaining rhino horn by participating in legal trophy hunts in South Africa - and then having the horns shipped to Asia for illegal sale.

The South African trophy hunting industry is being used to bypass the moratorium on the trade in individual rhino horns.

Kenyan wildlife officials called today for an end to the ivory trade worldwide, saying a one-off sale two years ago led to a spike in the number of elephants killed in Africa.

In a scandal that has sent tongues wagging in the official corridors of Zimbabwe, a police docket against two ZANU PF heavyweights — Emmerson Mnangagwa and Webster Shamu — has vanished from attorney-general Johannes Tomana’s office.

Demand for rhinoceros horns in Asia in general, and Vietnam in particular, has driven poaching to a 15-year-high and pushed the animals perilously close to extinction, major conversation groups have warned.

Demand for rhinoceros horns in Asia, where they are prized in traditional medicine, is driving rhinoceros poaching to a 15-year-high, major conservation groups said Thursday in a report.

Rhino horn and ivory worth an estimated R850000 was stolen in a dramatic heist at the Addo Elephant National Park.