When a group of startups set out to solve an age-old problem with new technology, they met unexpected resistance from conservationists who saw the idea as misguided at best — and dangerous at worst.

A 120-year-old stuffed rhinoceros is back on display minus its horn, which was stolen during a nighttime robbery, possibly by an organized gang seeking to sell it on the Asian black market.

Poachers have shot dead a rhino after breaking into a zoo near Paris, hacking off its horn with a chainsaw in the first such case in Europe. Jump to content UK News Website of the Year 2024 ...

In the study, published earlier this week in the journal People and Nature, the team measured the horns of 80 rhinos photographed in profile view between 1886 and 2018.

Inside are two great rooms filled with black leather sofas and taxidermy. He sits down at the table, ... the epicenter of cross-border poaching for rhino horn. In this view, ...

Rhino horns are extremely valuable, and can be sold for up to 40,000 euros, or about $42,200, on the black market, the Le Parisien newspaper reported. Some cultures believe the horns have ...

Trimming the horn of a tranquilized female black rhino in South Africa. Credit... Kim Ludbrook/EPA, via Shutterstock. By Rachel Nuwer. Published June 12, 2023 Updated June 14, 2023.

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 ...