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 ...

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 ...

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

Taking the relatively simple step of trimming the horns of wild rhinoceroses is enough to dramatically reduce the rate at ...

One by one, the rhinos were sedated, blindfolded, and surrounded by a team wielding a power saw. In a few minutes, their ...

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

An international study published in Science found that dehorning rhinos resulted in a drastic reduction in poaching of these ...

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

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

It is believed the horns have medicinal properties, and they fetch huge prices on the black market, particularly in Asia.

Poaching rates dropped by more than half in African reserves where veterinarians removed the animals’ horns, which are in ...