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

When a witness in Sean Combs's sex trafficking trial testified about buying Rhino pills from gas stations, she exposed a ...

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

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

A new study has found dehorning rhinos led to a large reduction in poaching in nearly a dozen game reserves in and around the ...

Rwanda said on Tuesday that 70 white rhinos had been successfully relocated to the Great Lakes nation, after a journey of ...

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 ...

Conservationists began dehorning rhinos around 1989. Scientists sedate the rhinos and cover their eyes and ears as they cut the horn off with a chainsaw. It’s also an opportunity to put microchips on ...

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

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

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

A new Kruger National Park study has conclusively found that dehorning rhino can save most from poachers, but some will still ...