More rhinos have been killed in South Africa in the past 10 months than were killed in all of 2010, new poaching numbers reveal. South Africa – More rhinos have been killed in South Africa in the past ...

The decline was due to "increased policing and combat operations". Poaching has been driven by demand for rhino horn in Asian countries for their purported medicinal properties. Since 2007 ...

and short-sighted business of rhino poaching. Rhinos are poached in enormous quantities to meet the demand in Asia for rhino-horn-based traditional “medicine.” As Asia gets richer, the demand ...

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

South African scientists on Tuesday injected radioactive material into live rhino horns to make them easier to detect at border posts in a pioneering project aimed at curbing poaching. The country ...

Scientists in South Africa on Tuesday inserted radioisotopes into the horns of live rhinoceroses in a groundbreaking anti-poaching project. Twenty rhinos at The Rhino Orphanage in Mokopane ...

Global demand for the horns fuels both crude poaching networks in southern African countries (the heartland of the black rhino) and larger organised crime networks. Photojournalist Brent Stirton is ...

Rhino poaching: 'Web of corruption' blamed The strange ... Africa's rhino population Hundreds are killed every year for their rhino horn Most are destined for Asia where rhino horn is an ...

the ban merely signalled to syndicates that rhino horn would become harder to get. "The rhino-poaching crisis is being driven by a persistent demand for rhino horn that cannot be supplied through ...

South Africa's battle to defeat rhino poaching has taken a turn for the worse with the numbers killed rising in 2023. Last year, 499 rhinos were hunted, an increase of 51 from the previous year ...