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 …
As Africa's rhino population continues to grow more vulnerable due to poaching and increasing demand for their horns in Asian countries, one organization is taking a different approach to curb the hunting by poisoning the animals' horns. Lorinda Hern, co-founder of the Rhino Rescue Project, explained to HuffPost Live's Josh …
Nineteen black rhino were recently released at an undisclosed location in South Africa to create a new breeding population of the critically endangered animals. The animals form the 10th population to be facilitated through WWF South Africa's Black Rhino Range Expansion Project and were made available through the Eastern Cape …
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology designed by Spanish engineers will be used to fight rhino poachers in national parks in Africa. The ranger drone is fitted with thermal vision that can report potential irregularities in real time. Designed to be an easy tool for use by park rangers, its makers …
The northern white rhino is heading the way of the dinosaurs. With only five left on Earth - three in Kenya, one in America and one in the Czech Republic - extinction is now inevitable. It survived for millions of years, but could not survive mankind. This is just one …
Jorhat: The rhino census in Kaziranga National Park will begin with a four-day programme from March 24. Divisional forest officer (Kaziranga) S K Seal Sharma said, "The census will start on March 24 in all the five ranges — Kohora, Bagori, Burapahar, Agoratoli and Biswanath Ghat — and the reports …
NEW DELHI, March 17 – Admitting that rhino poaching in the Kaziranga National Park is a big problem, Union Environment and Forest Minister Prakash Javadekar said the government has taken a slew of pro-active measures, disclosing that a comprehensive Bill amending the Wildlife Protection Act is being introduced in the …
Latest survey shows the number at 250 in two of the State’s national parks West Bengal is now home to the second highest population of the one-horned rhinoceros in the country after Assam, with the number growing to 250 in the State. A State Forest Department survey in January has …
Cairo — The ongoing loss of biodiversity in Africa is driven by a combination of human-induced factors, including a rising demand for and consumption of natural resources and pollution created by urbanization and industrialization. Some 6,419 animals and 3,148 plants in Africa were listed as facing extinction in 2014, a …
Wildlife crime worth as much as $10 billion annually threatens the existence of mammals, birds and trees ranging from rhinos to Spix’s macaws and rosewood, the United Nations said. “Wildlife and forest crime is one of the fastly growing forms of transnational crime,” Yury Fedotov, executive director of the United …
China’s booming e-commerce websites have carried thousands of advertisements for illegal wildlife products including ivory, rhino horn and tiger bone, a wildlife trade monitoring network said on Tuesday. More than half of such products offered online in recent months are ivory, the British group Traffic found in a survey of …
The two animals were discovered at a waterhole near Chipinge, 400 kilometres from Harare, news agency Sapa reported. Their carcasses were found before poachers had time to completely remove the horns, which had already been partly cut. These are the first rhinos to be poisoned after more than 100 elephants …
Assam Forest Minister Atuwa Munda decided to ignore an urgent summons from Assam Governor PB Acharya to meet him at the Raj Bhavan here yesterday citing prior engagement, but the director of Kaziranga National Park (KNP) MK Yadava had to rush to the Raj Bhavan to face the ire of …
Assam governor P.B. Acharya here on Sunday asked the state forest minister to submit report in writing on failure of his department in stopping the rampant killing of precious one-horn rhino in Kaziranga National Park. Expressing his deep anguish over the killing of sixth rhino in Kaziranga National Park on …
Unarmed Black Mambas recruited from local communities are guarding nature reserve inside the Greater Kruger national park 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 …
With rhino populations dwindling due to illegal hunting for their horns, poachers have now begun targeting vulnerable baby rhinos instead. In 2014, a record 1,215 rhinos died from poaching - a 21 percent increase from the previous record high set the year before. As a result, several rhino subspecies are …
Alarmed by frequent incidents of rhino poaching in north Bengal, the West Bengal government has decided to adopt a two-pronged approach to deal with the menace. First, the government intends to create a seven-member body with members drawn from the Sashastra Seema Bal, Border Security Force, CID and West Bengal …
Officials and experts from 13 tiger range countries including India are discussing ways to combat poaching - a multi-billion dollar industry - during a regional symposium that kicked off here this week. The five-day symposium entitled "Towards zero poaching in Asia" is aimed at promoting the launch of Asia-wide operations …
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said a Rhino Protection Force with more than 1,200 personnel would be raised to protect one-horned rhinoceros against poachers. Besides, the National Investigation Agency’s (NIA) help would be sought to bust the international rhino-poaching racket. Attending a review meeting on the anti-poaching measures and other …
The protection force will have more than 1,200 personnel In a move to strengthen conservation efforts of the one-horned rhinoceros at Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in Assam, the state government has decided to soon raise a special protection force, termed as 'Rhino Protection Force', to keep vigil in the famed …
Wildlife crime is at the top of the international conservation agenda. Current strategies for addressing it focus on law enforcement, reducing consumer demand and engaging local communities in conservation. To date considerably more attention has been paid to the first two strategies than to the third. This volume of case …
