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 …
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 …
The Members of the joint Select Committees on Land and Mineral Resources, and Communications and Public Enterprises were impressed by South African National Parks' (SANParks') anti-rhino poaching initiatives. The Committees met with the management of SANParks and the Department of Environmental Affairs in a two-day meeting that started on Tuesday …
The flood situation continues to remain grim in Assam with rivers still showing rising trend, inundating new areas in many parts of the state. The situation is particularly worse in Marigaon, Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts. The current wave of flood has inundated two very important wildlife protection areas …
Guwahati: The current wave of flood has inundated two very important wildlife protection areas in the state, Kaziranga National Park (KNP) and Pabitora Wildlife Sanctuary, in Assam besides so far affecting about nine lakh people in 18 districts of Assam and caused extensive damage to roads, bridges, embankments, houses and …
There are 12 active rhino poacher groups in the Kruger National Park (KNP) at any given time, with 749 rhino killed across South Africa thus far in 2015, Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa said on Sunday. Briefing media on progress in stopping rhino poaching in Pretoria, Molewa said so far …
The number of rhinos killed by poachers in South Africa continued to climb this year, with demand for rhino horn in Asia pushing the slaughter ever higher, the government said Sunday. As of August 27, the number of rhinos lost to poachers was 749 for the whole country, said Environment …
Rhino poaching in South Africa has intensified this year after a record number of animals were killed in 2014, according to Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa. In the period to Aug. 27, 749 rhinos were poached compared with 716 in the same time frame last year, Molewa told reporters on …
The poaching of rhinos has risen in South Africa's Kruger National Park this year but is on the decline elsewhere in the country, Environment Minister Edna Molewa said on Sunday. The Kruger Park, South Africa's main tourist draw, is on the frontlines of a surge in rhino poaching for the …
Customs officers in Vietnam seized more than two tons of elephant tusks, eight days after confiscating an ivory shipment weighing nearly a ton, authorities said on Monday. The estimated 4.4 million dollars worth of ivory was disguised as logs and hidden within a shipment of timber from Nigeria. The cargo …
California legislators aiming to pass more stringent regulations on the sale and dissemination of ivory and rhinoceros horns received a boost last Friday when a San Francisco man pleaded guilty to selling an undercover federal agent two black rhinoceros horns for $55,000. The art dealer Lumsden Quan and Mill Valley …
The Sumatran rhinoceros is not plentiful on the planet: In fact, the Dicerorhinus sumatrensis is down to maybe 100 in the wild and nine in captivity, and most of them live in Indonesia. Scientists have recently concluded that that rhino is extinct in Malaysia, and they published their conclusions in …
Conservation researchers have increasingly begun to use drones to conduct population counts of animals or study changing habitats. But new research suggests that wild black bears may be disturbed by a drone’s presence, prompting questions about the appropriate use of these devices in the field. Here, a brown-coated cub born …
The Prabhakar Barua Rhino Conservation Trust is seeking nominations for the Rhino Conservation Awards for 2015, a press release stated. The awards will be presented in September to coincide with the 100th birth anniversary of late Prabhakar Barua who was the first Assamese Chief Conservator of Forests of undivided Assam …
Poaching rhinos is a grisly business. Rather than attract attention with gunfire, many poachers prefer to use a tranquilliser dart to immobilise the rhino and then hack off a chunk of its face to pull out the horn. The beast usually dies of blood loss or suffocation within hours. But …
To help combat rhino and elephant poaching, members of the Namibia Professional Hunting Association (NAPHA) donated goods valued at N$1.987 million for auction. Although no incidence of rhino and elephant poaching has been recorded in the country since May, the statistics are still alarming, with 60 rhinos poached and 23 …
