By Dann Okoth Poaching has decimated rhino populations across Africa, but a new study finds that dehorning the animals, or ...

When Marais approaches the unconscious rhino, he covers its eyes to protect them and then uses a chainsaw to cut off its ...

In an effort to save the rhinoceros from poachers, conservationists have been cutting off their horns. Evidence of whether ...

A study published in the academic journal Science has found that cutting off the horns of rhinos in Africa leads to a ...

Dehorning rhinos dramatically drops the poaching rate compared with other tactics, researchers report June 5 in Science. The researchers suggest that no other anti-poaching intervention — such as ...

Across South Africa, removing the the object of poachers’ desire reduced rhino deaths by 78 percent, while it raised the ...

Commercial-scale poaching is emerging as a significant concern in East Africa’s tourism jewel, the Serengeti-Maasai Mara ...

Poaching is a major threat to rhinoceroses around the world. In South Africa alone, more than 400 rhinos are killed every ...

At the end of April, poachers broke into the Imire Rhino and Wildlife Conservancy in Zimbabwe in search of rhinoceros horn—an ...

Black and white rhino populations in the Greater Kruger (Kruger National Park and surrounding reserves) in South Africa have ...

A study published in the academic journal Science has found that cutting off the horns of rhinos in Africa leads to a reduction in poaching of the endangered species CAPE TOWN, South Africa ...

CAPE TOWN – Cutting off the horns of sedated rhinos with a chainsaw has been viewed by wildlife conservationists in Africa for more than 30 years as a necessary evil to save the iconic ...