In South Africa, home to three quarters of the last remaining rhinos on the planet, a spike in rhino poaching is threatening the white rhino’s survival. Rising demand for the lucrative rhino ...

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 ...

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 ...

The rhino population around the world has increased slightly but so have the killings, mostly in South Africa, as poaching fed by huge demand for rhino horns remains a top threat, conservationists ...

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 ...

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 ...

COLUMN. According to a study conducted in 11 South African reserves between 2017 and 2023, dehorning reduced poaching by 78%.

Cruel but “necessary”: Can cutting off rhino horns — and selling them — help save rhinos? Sawing off rhinos' horns is keeping these magnificent creatures alive. Is selling those horns the ...

A study published in the academic journal Science has found that cutting off the horns of rhinos in Africa leads to a reduction in poaching of the endangered species.

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 ...