Articles for Intl Rhino Foundation

POACHERS in helicopters have cut the horns off a heavily drugged white rhino with a chain-saw on a reserve between Colenso and Ladysmith in KwaZulu-Natal, a report said.

Eight more white rhinoceros have been killed by poachers in the Kruger National Park, despite the deployment of high-tech equipment and extra rangers at so-called 'hot spots' within the flagship reserve.

A group of poachers have killed a southern white rhino, an endangered species whose worldwide population is estimated at just 17,500, the head of Kenya's wildlife conservation agency said on Monday.

A white rhino was knocked down and killed by a bakkie and subsequently dehorned in a baffling hit-and-run accident in the Weenen Game Reserve on Tuesday night.

Another rhino has been poached in Ezemvelo Wildlife’s Hluhluwe-Imfolozi game reserve, bringing the tally in KwaZulu-Natal to 13 so far this year.

Being a traditional healer is not a “licence to kill” wildlife, a Camperdown regional court magistrate told 51-year-old Thembitshe Xaba, who pleaded guilty yesterday to illegally hunting a white rhinoceros at Nagle Dam in 2006.

The last four northern white rhinoceros remaining in the wild are feared to have been killed for their horns by poachers and are now believed to be extinct in the wild.

March 2008. A routine ranger patrol from Tshokwane found suspicious tracks while on patrol. Shortly after the rangers found the tracks, gunfire was heard and the field rangers reported this. A team from CIS flew into the area by helicopter and, combined with the Tshokwane rangers; this team quickly located and arrested three poachers. The carcasses of two white rhino cows were discovered nearby and further investigation showed that these animals had been shot earlier that day. Footprints in ...