Apart from poaching and habitat loss, climate change-induced droughts have been threatening the rhino population in Africa, pointed out a new report. On the other hand, climate disruptions in Asia can lead to the deaths of rhinos. Increased precipitation, longer monsoons and seasonal floods are already resulting in stranding, drowning …
The number of rhinos killed by poachers in Zimbabwe more than doubled last year to at least 50, a rhino conservation group has said. Zimbabwe experienced high levels of rhino poaching in 2008 and 2009, but the country brought it under control in subsequent years, resulting in the lowest level …
The Zoological Society London (ZSL), whose mission is to promote and achieve the world-wide conservation of animals and their habitats, says it may have taken a step closer to fulfilling that with the development of a new camera, which it calls Instant Detect. Developed in partnership with other companies like …
They have existed for more than 50 million years , but now Africa's rhino population is on the verge of disappearing. The biggest threat is poaching fuelled by huge demand for the animal's horn in traditional Asian medicine. In South Africa, home to the largest remaining population of rhinos, more …
The tribunal has also asked about the steps taken by the State of Assam to prevent animal deaths on roads caused due to vehicular traffic The sad state of affairs at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, where animals continue to become victims of poaching, commercial activities and vehicular traffic, …
South Africa's High Court has lifted a ban on the local trade in rhino horn imposed by the government in 2009 after finding that the state had not followed the process of public participation before imposing the moratorium, media reported on Thursday. The ruling came after an application by two …
A northern white rhinoceros, one of just four left on Earth, died on Sunday at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park after suffering from a bacterial infection and age-related health issues, zoo officials said. Nola, a 41-year-old rhino brought to the Southern California park in 1989 as part of a …
South Africa has stepped up its efforts to fight rhino poaching in the country’s flora and fauna-rich nature reserves, Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has said. Addressing the second Interpol-United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Conference in Singapore on Monday, the minister said Kruger National Park has …
With large-scale hotels in and around the world heritage site of Kaziranga National Park (KNP) posing a threat to wildlife, especially the one-horned rhinoceros, the National Green Tribunal has sought to know how such activities came to be permitted by the State government. The Tribunal has summoned the Secretary, Department …
Poachers managed to kill another rhino at Kaziranga, a world heritage site about 250 km from here, on Sunday, barely a week after the national park was opened to visitors. Kaziranga divisional forest officer S K Seal Sarma said the poachers were, however, unable to take away the horn, following …
Poaching and the trade in illegal animal goods have been placed in the same category as drug and weapons smuggling by a new law passed in the US. The Global Anti-Poaching Act passed by the US House of Representatives aims to “support global anti-poaching efforts, strengthen the capacity of partner …
A series of deaths of orangutans further confirms the destruction of Indonesia’s forests, contributing to the problem of global climate change. The country’s biodiversity, including protected species such as Sumatran orangutans, elephants and rhinos, is currently under grave threat as a result of habitat devastation. Amid wildfires and the ongoing …
The battle against the poaching that kills a rhino every seven hours in South Africa has acquired a new weapon: women. The Black Mambas are all young women from local communities, and they patrol inside the Greater Kruger national park unarmed. Billed as the first all-female unit of its kind …
Hundreds of illegal hunters of the rhinoceros in South Africa’s Kruger national park have been shot dead by rangers in the past five years, but the temptation of a rich reward to end an impoverished life in Mozambique keeps them coming The well-heeled tourists filing through the modest airport at …
Wildlife poaching in Africa has become an issue of major concern with increasing numbers of animals being hunted and killed, even in wildlife conservation areas. Various animals, such as elephants and rhinos are being hunted and killed for their ivory mostly. According to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) reports, …
A mostly female anti-poaching unit from South Africa has won a top environmental award at the United Nations. Dressed in boots and camouflage uniforms, two members of the Black Mamba group received the UN accolade on behalf of their unit in New York on Sunday. They were among several individuals …
A full bench of the High Court in Pretoria on Wednesday reserved judgment in a bid by two rhino breeders to set aside the government's moratorium on rhino horn trading. John Hume has blamed the sharp increase in rhino poaching on the ban, which came into effect early in 2009. …
Conservation group IUCN wants Indonesia and international donors to take urgent action to save ‘weirdest of all rhinos’ Earth’s last remaining Sumatran rhinos are edging perilously close to extinction, according to one of the world’s top conservation bodies. There are fewer than 100 of the animals left in the rainforests …
An anti-poaching group who call themselves the Black Mambas has decreased hunting in South Africa's Balule Private Game Reserve by 76 percent. The group of mainly women patrols for poachers in the preserve, and they were recently awarded the United Nations' Champions of the Earth prize for their conservation efforts …
The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)'s rhino task force has suggested that the CBI should be given the mandate to investigate, suo motu, those cases of rhino poaching in which the horn of the animal is not found within two days of the crime being committed unless intelligence inputs confirm …
Like other crimes, rampant rhino poaching in the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) is also a product of poor governance and weak institutional structures, observed the Rhino Task Force constituted by the Union Environment and Forest Ministry to study the problem of rhino poaching in the KNP. The Task Force has …
