The son of a well-known rhino breeder in Mpumalanga has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly shot a suspected rhino poacher.
688 rhino have already been poached this year. With 100 days left in the year, the number could push towards 1 000.
A special police unit has arrested an alleged rhino poacher in a village near the Kruger National Park after an extensive investigation.
The number of alleged rhino poachers arrested in South Africa this year now stands at 147, says the environmental affairs department.
The department of environmental affairs has put forward a paper suggesting that rhino horn be allowed to be traded on the Johannesburg bourse.
Wessa Rhino Initiative is the runner-up in the Rhino Rescue Award.
Project Rhino KZN wins the Rhino Rescue Award.
Rhino deaths could outpace births by 2026 if new methods, like a once-off sale of local stockpiles, are not adopted to kill the horn black market.
Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa and Mozambique’s tourism minister will take action to combat rhino poaching, says her department.
SA’s tally of poached rhino looks set to exceed last year’s 668 killed, with officials saying 367 have been killed in the first five months of 2013.
The 35-year Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species ban on rhino horn has not stopped the poachers, says ANC MP Johnny de Lange.
In her budget vote, Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has said that the industry shows the value of SA’s biodiversity and would be supported.
Andrew Parker’s point about inertia in the conservation industry is exacerbated by the fatigue and frustration associated with academic debate.
Legalisation of international trade will not eliminate rhino poaching, but it will save a species, writes Andrew Parker.
Mozambique’s rhino population was wiped out more than a century ago. Reconstituted several years ago, it has again been driven to extinction.
The number of poached rhino for the year has risen to 273, says the environmental affairs department.
A new video of a canned lion hunt has been making waves on the internet, bringing renewed attention to trophy hunting in South Africa.
A five-year-old Johannesburg boy has donated R4 000 of his birthday money to the Rhino SA anti-poaching campaign.
Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has thrown her weight behind controversial calls for the legalisation of trade in rhino horn.
Confronted by the evidence, the country rounds on those trying to force it to stop the trade.
The Endangered Wildlife Trust has partnered with a Vietnamese nongovernmental organisation to develop an anti-rhino poaching campaign.
Urgent steps will have to be taken after a report at Cites sheds light on the dramatic rise in elephant poaching across Africa.
Police say they have found no signs of a burglary at a police station outside Brits from where a set of rhino horns disappeared.
Poachers in north-east India have slaughtered 13 rare one-horned rhinos in the last two months, say officials.
With 2013 set to break new records in rhino poaching, environmental ministers will meet in Bangkok to find a solution.
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s budget has been generous to the environment, with extended funding and clarity on the carbon tax.
A total of 102 rhino have been killed since the beginning of the year, says the department of environmental affairs.
South Africa has announced its opposition to a total ban on rhino trophy exports, saying it has beefed up hunt rules.
Faced with poachers who are ravaging elephant and rhino populations, African nations could do worse than look to Namibia for a game plan.
Chris Roper ponders the National Press Club’s decision to make the rhino Newsmaker of the Year 2012, and what this says about the media.
The National Press Club has defended its decision to choose the rhino as Newsmaker of the Year 2012, which came under heavy criticism on social media.
Four men have been arrested for allegedly planning to hunt rhino in the Waterpoort area, near Makhado, after police received a tip-off.