Articles for Intl Rhino Foundation

A rhino horn, valued at about Rs 20 lakh, was recovered from three persons at Siliguri in West Bengal, forest department sources said today.

Three people were held in connection to Rhino horn smuggling.

Four men facing various charges related to the hunting of protected species and the illegal trade in rhino horn appeared in the Bloemfontein High Court on Monday.

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.

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.

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.

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.

By Goweditswe Kome FRANCISTOWN - The Francistown Magistrate Court has fined Almero Mattheus P10 000 or one year imprisonment for unlawful possession of eight rhino horns valued at more than P2.1 million . According to facts of the case, Mattheus entered Botswana through Ramokgwebana Border Post en-route to South Africa on July 31. The court learnt that during immigration formalities, the police and immigration officers conducted a search in the vehicle he was driving and eight rhino ...

Corporate civic consciousness found new expression recently when Sri Lanka’s iconic department store Odel rewarded four officers of the Wildlife Department for detecting stock of leopard skins and the horn of a black rhinoceros. The detection in Colombo led to the arrests of two businessmen for possession of four leopard skins and the horn of a black rhinoceros earlier this year. In a spontaneous gesture of appreciation, Odel presented the officers with cash rewards out of the company’s CSR ...

Customs officials at the Katunayake airport fined and arrested a man attempting to smuggle a rhino horn valued at around Rs. 10 million to Bangkok last morning. The suspect, a 50-year-old antique dealer in Fort, had arrived at the airport to board flight TG 308 to Bangkok. The rhino horn weighing around 1.2 kg was found hidden among the suspect’s garments in his luggage, Customs officials said. Deputy Customs Director, Mali Piyasena said the same suspect had been arrested three weeks ago ...