Poachers in Hluhluwe push rhino death toll to 75 by Chelsea Pieterse
Photograph taken by Megan Lategan ONE rhino died and two others were wounded after poachers darted and dehorned them in Hluhluwe... Continue Reading
Rhino war: ‘total onslaught’ By Anna Cox August 31 2015
Johannesburg – Three attempts are made every day by poachers to get into the Kruger National Park to slaughter rhinos. And since... Continue Reading
‘It’s our culture’: Rhino horn is still for sale in San Francisco Chinatown, despite crackdown
At Wei’s spice shop in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Tiffany, a Chinese-American attorney who has just finished law school, waits until the rush... Continue Reading
Save the Rhino: Rhino Horn is Not Medicine
The demand for rhino horn from certain Southeast Asian countries has resulted in the illegal slaughter of over 3,600 rhino in South... Continue Reading
48 rhino poaching suspects arrested since June: NamPol
The Namibian Police Force (NamPol)’s Anti-Poaching Unit has since June this year arrested 48 people for alleged rhinoceros poaching crimes. Furthermore, about... Continue Reading
Hanoi customs officers seizes 100 kg of ivory, rhino horns in record haul
Custom officers at a Hanoi airport on Wednesday seized 100 kg of what they believed to be ivory and rhino horns –... Continue Reading
Uganda launches ten-year National Rhino Strategy
Uganda’s Tourism Minister, the Honorable Maria Mutagamba, launched the Ten-year National Rhino Strategy in the country’s capital, Kampala, yesterday. This was at... Continue Reading
Vietnam to bust rhino horm myth By Chantall Presence
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa hosts Mr Hoang Trung Hai, Deputy Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in Cape Town on... Continue Reading
Women face sentencing for role in rhino poaching by Ingrid Oellermann
THE first two women to be convicted in KwaZulu-Natal of conspiring to poach rhinos for their horns, are due to be sentenced... Continue Reading
Namibia Says No to Destroying Its Huge Ivory and Rhino Horn Stockpile
By Adam Cruise Pohamba Shifeta, Namibia’s Minister of Environment and Tourism, said the country will not destroy its stockpile of ivory and... Continue Reading