Articles for Intl Rhino Foundation

Assam government has constituted district-wise committees for disposal of rhino horns in possession of the state Forest department except those required as exhibits in certain court cases.

THE EASTERN Cape’s Green Scorpions and the police organised crime unit have played a major part in cracking down a syndicate, which trades in illegal rhino horn smuggling all over South Africa.

Last June, a group of five men drove into South Africa's Addo National Park and held up the rangers' station at gunpoint.

Tanzania said Saturday it will press for permission to sell around 100 tonnes of elephant tusks to reduce its huge stockpile and use the money to combat poaching.

Move aimed at telling poachers that body part has no medicinal value

Two white rhinos in the Free State were apparently drugged and robbed of their horns at the Willem Pretorius nature reserve near Ventersburg, environmental authorities said on Thursday.

Replicas of rhino are flooding the illegal market in India's Northeastern state of Assam with a spurt in demand. Conservationists see a positive side to it as it might not only hamper the clandestine market but also protect the rhinos.

Demand for rhino horns in Asia is behind the latest increase in poaching.

With Vietnamese believing rhino horns have magical medicinal properties and willing to pay big money for them, the giant animal is being driven to extinction.

A special patrol team from the Bardiya National Park has arrested three hunters along with a rhino horn.

Rhino poaching has hit a fifteen-year high, and the rising price for black-market rhino horn is likely the reason why.

POACHERS see this rhino as their way to get rich quick - for its horn is now worth more than gold for the first time in a decade.

The cost of rhino horn has left gold prices behind for the first time in ten years.

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.

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.

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.

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