Last year provided a wealth of meetings and conferences with minimal outcomes, while catastrophes continued to show how the climate is changing.
Africa’s rhinos and elephants have been poached in near record numbers in 2012, with surging demand for horn and ivory driving the slaughter.
A rhino farmer is planning to use surveillance drones designed for the US military to combat poachers who are driving the animals towards extinction.
A retired army officer has been roped in to help fight rhino poaching.
Local rhinos have been thrown a lifeline with a memorandum of understanding signed between Vietnam and South Africa.
While South Africa is battling rhino poaching, it seems to be escaping the continental elephant purge. But not for long, writes Sipho Kings.
A new, state-of-the-art surveillance aircraft represents a vital alliance between the public and private sector in the fight against rhino poaching.
The SA National Defence Force could be called in to help prevent rhino poaching in North West, premier Thandi Modise said on Monday.
The number of rhinos poached this month could hit a new high despite the best efforts of authorities, MPs heard on Tuesday.
The Hawks on Sunday shot dead an alleged rhino poacher and injured another during a shootout in the Kruger National Park.
Law enforcement agencies have dealt a blow to a global smuggling ring, when a Thai national was sentenced to 40 years for smuggling rhino horn.
In an edited extract from his book Killing for Profit, Julian Rademeyer offers a glimpse into two sides of the complicated battle in the bush.
As the number of rhino’s poached for their horns in 2012 nears 500 in South Africa, another six have been killed in the North West province.
Vietnam has failed to sign a law-enforcement and biodiversity agreement with South Africa aimed at curbing escalating levels of rhino poaching.
"Tiger Man" John Varty has suggested that breeders should defy the government’s trade ban and stage a high-profile global auction of horns.
The world’s first dedicated rhino orphanage has opened its doors in Limpopo. We spend time with the first inhabitant – a four-month-old rhino.
An orphanage in Limpopo is giving baby rhinos a second chance at life after their parents were killed by poachers.
DNA data, tracker dogs, choppers – the Kruger National Park has pulled out all the stops to save its rhino, writes Sipho Kings.
Russell, a Belgian shepherd dog, is the Pilanesberg Nature Reserve’s newest weapon against rhino poachers.
Some rhino owners in South Africa are allegedly dehorning or killing the animals, and then claiming to be victims of poaching.
With 251 rhinos poached so far this year in SA, the expectation is that rhino hunting, especially that of the black rhino, will be shut down.
The government has called in conservation’s "Mr Fix-it", former SANParks CEO Mavuso Msimang, to find a way to stop the unabated slaughter of rhinos.
Crime-busting unit, the Hawks, has warned that 556 rhinos could be killed by the end of the year if current poaching trends persist.
The environmental affairs department says South Africa has lost 227 rhinos to illegal hunting activities since the beginning of the year.
The arrest this week of a rhino horn smuggler shows SA’s battle to protect the animal is paying off, as syndicates’ methods come into clearer focus.
A Vietnamese man has been arrested after a police raid on his premises found 10 rhino horns, one elephant tusk and nearly R25-million in cash.