Lemtongthai played a principal role in a syndicate which used white rhino trophy hunts in South Africa to obtain horns to trade in the Asian black markets, a practice known as “pseudo-hunting”. During ...

On one side are poachers, who trespass on private and public land to hunt and harvest ... According to the IUCN African Rhino Specialist Group, rhino poaching in South Africa increased from ...

South Africa's wildlife is under threat as some of the country's most iconic species are being targeted by criminal gangs who deal in rhino horn and other illegal wildlife parts. Luckily there are men ...

In a long-term project, South Africa set aside a game reserve, now Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Park, to nurture them.By the 1960s private landowners had also begun building white rhino herds so trophy ...

Police have commended the sentencing of three wildlife poachers, who have been found guilty of a number of serious crimes by ...

In this week's podcast, we talk with Gen. Johan Jooste, a former Army general and chief ranger, about anti-poaching efforts ...

The horns of live rhinoceroses in South Africa ... Radioactive rhino horns are unfit for human consumption, so consumer demand will decrease, and poachers will be less likely to hunt rhinos.

Rhino poaching in South Africa was 15 per cent higher in 2021 than the preceding year as coronavirus restrictions that limited movement were eased, official figures showed Tuesday. A total of 451 ...

20, but the trial date has been postponed, the Save the Rhino representative told Mongabay. Minister Dion George of South Africa’s Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment ...

Black rhinos are critically endangered according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, with only an estimated 6,400 individuals remaining in all of Africa. While the population is ...

Many southern white rhinos in South Africa are under private ownership on rhino farms, where they’re used commercially for breeding, photographic tourism, legal hunting, and horn production.