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Ronnie Wood Contributes Painting Skills To Help Save The Rhinos

Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood is among a group of artists brightening up London’s streets with dozens of colourful fibre-glass resin rhinos.

Boy proves nobody is too young to save rhinos

Hunter Mitchell received the International Young Eco-Hero Award by the environmental organisation Action for Nature for having a positive impact on the environment with his efforts to save rhinos. Picture: Henk Kruger/African News Agency (ANA)

Rhinos Poached in Namibia 2018

African Rhino Conservation and the Trade in Rhino Horn

The conservation of African rhinos has been a major wildlife trade issue for well over a decade. The most pressing threat to their continued survival in the wild is from poaching to satisfy consumer demand for their horn, predominantly from Asia.

Wildlife Poaching Could Soon Be Punished by the Death Penalty

Wildlife poaching has been a persistent problem in the East African region, thanks to international demand for elephant tusks (ivory) and rhino horn. The increasing demand has caused a catastrophic decline in elephant and rhino numbers which continues to threaten the survival of both species. For this reason, Kenya has proposed a brazen solution to this problem: the death penalty.

STROOP Journey into the Rhino Horn War

A disastrous translocation organized by the government and WWF, has left all of the black rhinos dead and plenty of unanswered questions... lots of finger pointing and job terminations over alleged vet handling and ecological management (the rhinos were given water with too high a salt content in their new area). Hopefully a full inquiry will reveal what really happened as rumours abound.

Spy cameras fitted to endangered rhinos to stop them being butchered by poachers

The British system, which also uses a satellite tracking collar and heart-rate monitor, pin-points attacks so rangers can reach stricken animals by helicopter.

How routine rhino trip left nine dead, and world stunned

Only two out of the 11 black rhinos that were translocated to the Tsavo National Park are alive.

Meet Arthur the one month old rhino who tried to save his mom from poachers

On May 20, at Kruger NP, a four week old baby rhino tried valiantly to protect his mom from poachers while he was struck with a machete.

Rhinos begin Journey to Zacouma NP CHAD

Earlier today, six black rhinos were loaded for transport from South Africa as the result of an unprecedented international collaboration among South Africa’s department of Environmental Affairs (DEA), the Chadian government, South African National Parks (SANPArks) and African Parks, to reintroduce the species to the Republic of Chad. The last black rhino was recorded in 1972.

“The Return Of The Rhino” by Neil Aldridge

Rhinos are fighting for survival. To feed the demand for rhino horn in the Far East poachers kill more than three every day and all the while the South African government is championing the consumptive use of rhinos and the legalization of the trade in horn.

Artificial Insemination Yields Rhino Embryo At Zoo’s Safari Park

A new rhino pregnancy at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park is considered a key stepping stone in the Zoo's effort to help revive the critically endangered northern white rhino species.

RHINO fACtS – Posted by Wildact on Facebook

86% of seized rhino horn were transported from African countries. Among these, 70% were transported from Mozambique, Kenya and South Africa. Other countries such as Congo, Angola, Uganda and Ethiopia were also mentioned by the news.

Why understanding demand for rhino horn will make or break their survival

Researchers say campaigns aimed at consumers will help curb poaching, writes Tony Carnie

Consolation for the terminally ill: study finds a surprising use for rhino horn

In addition to a status symbol for business, cures for hangovers and cancer, Vietnamese are using poached rhino horn — mainly from SA — to console terminally ill relatives. The startling discovery emerged during in-depth interviews with 30 recent purchasers of rhino horn in Hanoi and Ho Chi Min City.

Where does the blood money trail end?

Intelligence sources maintain that the money trail of the loot collected by crime syndicate bosses in the Sabié/Moamba districts in Mozambique should be followed to ascertain who is really behind the state of lawlessness in the area.

Kenya Marks Rhinos in Conservation Drive

MERU, Kenya: Kenya started marking rhinos Thursday and aims to tag and identify 22 of them in two weeks at a cost of $600,000, senior government officials said on Thursday, as part of conserving their dwindling numbers.

Night-vision drones loaded with Nasa’s galaxy-tracking technology may help Trap Poachers

Technology used by Nasa for studying faint stars and galaxies could be used to trap poachers in a rare collaboration between astronomers and ecologists.

Incredible Sighting of Rhino Thandi & Family

These incredible photographs, taken by ranger Jone at Kariega Game Reserve, capture a very intimate moment spent with rhino Thandi and her family. Thandi survived a brutal poaching on 2 March 2012.

Horn ‘yer bike! Fierce mother rhino chases hungry hyenas away from her tiny baby in Kenya

The pack of hyenas encircles the mother and her offspring patiently circling while waiting for a chance to strike...
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