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 …
Rhino population in Kaziranga National Park has registered an increase of 72 even as 54 pachyderms were poached at the world heritage site since 2013. According to the latest rhino census,the animal population has been estimated to be 2,401 in Kaziranga National Park (KNP) while the figure was 2,329 after …
Due to an increase in poaching in southern Africa, the 70 000-hectare Erindi Private Game Reserve, which is home to about 20 000 wild animals, has de-horned all its rhinos to discourage rhino poachers. Erindi is also totally enclosed by a 200km electric fence and has 35 staff member anti-poaching …
Conservation experts meeting in Botswana on Wednesday issued dire warnings over the booming illegal wildlife trade that threatens the survival of elephants, rhinos, tigers and other endangered species. Stressing that poaching was "growing problem", delegates from 30 countries underlined their commitment to pledges made at a conference in London last …
A hunter who paid $350,000 last year at a Dallas auction for a license to hunt an endangered black rhino in Namibia will be able to bring home a trophy despite protests from animal rights groups that said the sale was immoral. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said on …
Britain will provide new funding to a global crackdown on the trade in rhino horn, elephant ivory and other illegal wildlife products. Britain will provide new funding to a global crackdown on the trade in rhino horn, elephant ivory and other illegal wildlife products, International Development Secretary Justine Greening announced …
A Committee of Inquiry established by South Africa’s Department of Environmental Affairs will begin hearing expert testimony on the subject of legalising the rhino horn trade as the Southern African country, home to more than 80 per cent of the world’s rhinos, grapples with a rhino poaching crisis. Based on …
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 …
