DES MOINES, Iowa — A rare rhino will have a new home at Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines. Ajani Joe, known as “AJ," was born at ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) - Iowa’s Wildest Adventure welcomes a new male eastern black rhino in order to help increase the ...

Kenya is currently home to 80 per cent of the global eastern black rhino population, alongside 1,041 southern white rhinos and the last two known northern white rhinos. Kenya aims to increase the ...

Intensive conservation efforts in several African countries have, however, boosted the world black rhino population from a low of around 2 450 in 1992 to just over 2 700 in 1999, with a further 234 ...

Statistics from the National Wildlife census 2021 show that the Black Rhino Population stood at 897 individuals, a hopeful rise from 853 the previous year. Although this growth is promising ...

A Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) team sedate and load a rhino into a transport crate as part of an 18-day translocation project ...

Steady growth Miano noted that Kenya is a home to 80 percent of the eastern black rhino population and which has grown from 384 in 1989 to 1,059 in 2024. "Kenya is home to 80 percent of Africa ...

Kenya’s black rhino population, now around 1,000, is a conservation success story, rebounding from near collapse due to poaching in the 1980s. However, sanctuaries are reaching capacity ...

Letting black rhinos roam freely may be the best way to save them from the hidden genetic dangers of inbreeding, according to a new study, the first to look at the whole genomes of these critically ...

This exercise aims to relieve pressure on overpopulated sanctuaries as Ol Pejeta, Lewa, and Lake Nakuru. Kenya is home to 80 per cent of Africa’s remaining eastern black rhinos, a responsibility ...

The relocation will help boost the black rhino population, which has grown from 384 in 1989 to 1,059 by the end of 2024. Erustus Kanga, director general of the state-owned Kenya Wildlife Service ...