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SA’s rhinos are ‘more valuable alive than dead’

Government unveils new plan to strengthen rhino coordination and confront poaching

Rhino conservation: A rhino poached at the weekend has become a tragic emblem of the Red Mountain dispute. Photo: Supplied

Namibia’s Red Mountain conflict deepens after rhino poaching incident

Conservationists view the poaching of a rhino as evidence of governance failure; community leaders see it as collateral in the fight for survival

Photo by Julian Hahne

Meet the real rhino whisperers protecting black rhinos in KwaZulu-Natal

The WWF’s Black Rhino Range Expansion Project has established 17 new populations

Rhino poaching and illegal horn trade declining in Africa and Asia

Despite the decline in rhino poaching, there are critical threats to the survival of these iconic animals

On the hunt: Adri Kritzhoff, chief executive of the Professional Hunters Association of South Africa and professional hunter Tavi Fragoso at the Iwamanzi Game Reserve in Koster. Photo: Stefan Heunis/AFP

High court suspends environment department’s trophy hunting quota for black rhinos, leopards and elephants

Interim interdict ‘spares death’ of 170 animals at the hands of hunters, judge says

More than 40 years after they were wiped out, more than 40 rhinos are being reintroduced to the Zinave National Park in Mozambique in what has been hailed as a “historic return” of the species.

Rhinos to return to Mozambique’s ‘silent park’

More than 40 critically endangered black rhino and near-threatened white rhino will be reintroduced to the Zinave National Park

More rhinos, more money: The rhino bond’s returns are linked to population growth. (Philippe Lopez/AFP)

‘Rhino bond’ charges onto markets to save South African animals

Investors will see returns if the critically endangered rhino population increases in two designated South African parks

Challenge: Cathy Dreyer says new technologies and innovative strategies give her hope that ‘we’ll be able to stem the tide of poaching’. (Karin Schermbrucker)

Q&A Sessions: Meet Cathy Dreyer, the rhino whisperer

Cathy Dreyer, the first female head ranger of the Kruger National Park, speaks to Sheree Bega about earning the trust of black rhinos by reading to them and why the park’s…

Sixteen southern white rhinos have been moved from &Beyond Phinda Private Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal to Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
(Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Kruger loses 70% of rhinos in 10 years

The good news is that the drought has eased, poaching is down and the environment department is now not only focusing on the poachers but is going after crime syndicates

An endangered black female rhinoceros with its horn partially cut-off charges inside its cage after a radio transmitter was implanted in its horn before translocation.

Black rhino to return to Chad after South Africa deal

Six black rhino, who are listed as critically endangered, will be moved to Chad in 2018.

A rare black rhino.

R7.5m to kill a rhino

The Dallas Safari Club is auctioning off a chance to shoot a black rhino in Namibia. The expected proceeds of R7.5-million go to rhino conservation.

The horn ultimatum: ‘Lift the ban on trade or killing goes on’

The horn ultimatum: ‘Lift the ban on trade or killing goes on’

Mpumalanga’s rhino-farming tycoon, John Hume, says the best financial investment is to keep stockpiling rhino horn because the price keeps rising.

Rhino poaching on the rise in Kenya

Melita is the latest victim of a worrying surge in rhino poaching which has hit the whole of the region of hills and high plateaux in Kenya.

Rare black rhinos relocated to Serengeti

Conservationists flew the first five of 32 critically endangered East African black rhinos from SA back to their habitat in Tanzania’s Serengeti.

‘Straight bloody slaughter’

Wildlife traffickers are laundering hunting permits to smuggle rhinoceros horns to the Far East for use in medicinal potions.