There are around 17,500 white rhinos and 6,500 black rhinos left, but black rhino numbers were reduced by poaching from 70,000 in 1970 to less than 2,500 by the time poaching reached a crisis ...

Rhino poaching may be substantially reduced by removing the reason so many rhinos are poached in the first place: their highly valued horns. Dehorning rhinos dramatically drops the poaching rate ...

LAST year, 1175 rhinos were killed by poachers in South Africa and unofficial figures for 2016 show the numbers are set to meet or exceed that due to increased demand in Asia for the animal’s horn.

Although rhino poaching has slowed somewhat in recent years, Kruger saw a spike in December 2024 when 19 rhinos were poached inside the park. Photo by Cornel van Heerden / Getty Images. The ...

Scientists are testing a new strategy to stave off rhinoceros poaching. By injecting rhino horns with radioactive isotopes, they hope to make the rhinos' most in-demand assets unfit for human ...

Could lab-grown rhino horns actually stop poaching? We may never know When a group of startups set out to solve an age-old problem with new technology, they met unexpected resistance from ...

Black and white rhino populations in the Greater Kruger (Kruger National Park and surrounding reserves) in South Africa have plummeted from over 10,000 rhinos in 2010 to around 2,600 in 2023.

The number of rhinos is slightly up but poaching has increased too With all five subspecies combined, there are just under 28,000 rhinos left in the world, from 500,000 at the beginning of the ...

The arrests are a major breakthrough for police and conservationists after poaching reduced Nepal’s rhino population by more than 30 per cent in the last five years. The "kingpin" of the gang was ...

The number of rhinos is slightly up but poaching has increased too With all five subspecies combined, there are just under 28,000 rhinos left in the world, from 500,000 at the beginning of the ...