Dr Johan Marais dug deep into the gaping wound that was Hope’s face, his white gloves bloodied as he removed chunks of dead tissue. Face reconstruction on rhino Home Page ...

The horns and a large section of the rhino’s face were hacked off by poachers, a horrific injury that exposed flesh and bone. One South African veterinarian treating the mutilated animal was so ...

So far, so good, for the rhino that had become an international symbol of South Africa’s devastating poaching crisis. Last May, poachers hacked off its entire face, for its horn, on an Eastern ...