Rhino poaching surges across Africa amid virus pandemic 02:27. South African scientists on Tuesday injected radioactive material into live rhino horns to make them easier to detect at border posts ...

The country experienced a significant decline in rhino poaching around 2020 at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, but the numbers increased when virus lockdown restrictions were eased.

NEW YORK — South African scientists on Tuesday injected radioactive material into live rhino horns to make them easier to detect at border posts in a pioneering project aimed at curbing poaching.

Inside the race to save rhino herds from poachers 04:31. Rhinos without Borders is racing to save the animals from extinction. Last year alone, more than 1,200 were slaughtered in the country for ...

By Dann Okoth Poaching has decimated rhino populations across Africa, but a new study finds that dehorning the animals, or surgically removing their horns, drastically reduces poaching. The study ...

Rhino poaching has soared across southern Africa in recent years, with South Africa’s largest national park, the iconic Kruger National Park at the epicenter. Earlier this week, the ...

In South America, legal trade in vicuña wool has led to more poaching, a Chilean scientist warns. In South Africa in 2014, more than 1,000 white rhinos were poached for their horns—most in ...

Only about 29,000 rhinos remain in the wild today -- 73 percent of those wild rhinos are in South Africa -- and most of those live in South Africa's Kruger National Park. Authorities are ...