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 …
Hong Kong has called for an end to local ivory trading within five years, a move activists hailed as significant given the financial hub's reputation as a wildlife trafficking blackspot, while calling for this ban to be speeded up. The former British colony acts an important transit and consumption hub …
Zimbabwe's wildlife authority has suspended its director general and is investigating the disappearance of 228 kg (500 pounds) of the agency's stored rhino horn, it said on Tuesday. The southern African nation keeps in storage 70 tonnes of ivory from elephants and rhinos - worth at least $35 million - …
GUWAHATI: Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Wednesday asked the deputy commissioners and superintendents of police to take all possible measures to protect the one-horned rhinos. The chief minister held a high-level meeting with the deputy commissioners and superintendents of police of Jorhat, Golaghat and Nagaon districts that encircle the …
Guwahati: Amid intensifying crackdown against poachers, Kaziranga National Park lost second rhino within a week on Sunday. The poachers killed a female rhino and took away the horn in the Bagori forest range of Kaziranga. The first incident had happened while forest minister Promila Rani Brahma was on a visit …
Trying to send a strong message that it would not take rhino poaching lightly, the Assam government has suspended Kaziranga National Park director Mufakkar Ali on charge of "negligence in his duties pertaining to protection of rhinos." Forest minister Pramila Rani Brahma has already made it clear that the government …
South Africa's department of environmental affairs said on Wednesday an on-again-off-again moratorium on domestic trade in rhino horn had been reinstated after it appealed to the top court in the land to render judgment on the thorny issue. The outcome has no bearing on a ban on international trade in …
Environmentalists are sceptical that plans to quadruple maximum jail terms from five to 20 years will be effective Indonesia plans to quadruple maximum jail terms for animal poachers and traffickers in a major overhaul of wildlife crime laws, but environmentalists expressed scepticism on Wednesday that the changes would be effective. …
Wildlife crime experts suggested that the new BJP-led government in Assam, for whom curbing rhino poaching was one of the major election promises, should seek cooperation from neighbouring Northeast states for helping tackling the crime. As poachers from the neighbouring states often comes to Assam to kill rhino and its …
Tshwane - Minister of Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa has condemned the poaching of two rhino at the Rietvlei Nature Reserve. The two white rhino were killed and dehorned on Thursday evening. In a statement issued on Saturday, Molewa said she was hopeful that the suspects would be arrested and brought …
President Uhuru Kenyatta has said he will be taking the fight against trade in ivory to South Africa, a nation that is strongly opposed to destruction of illegal ivory stockpiles. He said this move will be one of the many steps Kenya has taken "to secure a sustainable and resilient …
The poaching and illegal trade of thousands of species across the global present real environmental dangers and undermine the rule of law, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said today, urging shared responsibility among the international community in tackling wildlife and forest crime. Launching its inaugural World …
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal has dismissed a government bid to uphold a seven-year ban on the domestic trade in rhino horn, an industry group said on Monday. The decision has no bearing on a ban on international trade in rhino horn. Potential domestic buyers could …
BAREILLY: In an ongoing research titled 'Great Asian One Horned Rhinoceros dying in Indian Zoos' by a wildlife expert has revealed that 110 rhinos have died in Indian zoos during the period from 1965 to 2015. The research stated that out of these 110 rhinos, only 34 were born in …
The kingdom of Swaziland has made a surprise proposal to legalise the trade in rhino horn in order to pay for anti-poaching measures. In a leaked document addressed to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites), Swaziland’s anti-poaching body said it wanted to sell the country’s 330kg stockpile …
Preparations are underway in Kenya for the inaugural Giants Club conservation summit that will be hosted by the country’s president Uhuru Kenyatta. The international wildlife summit will see several Heads of States, conservation experts, Hollywood figures among others being in attendance. The event will work towards the goal of developing …
In the last hundred years, tiger populations across the world have decreased; from a 60,000 population, only 3,200 were left in the wild by 2010. Poaching has been the main reason for this unnerving drop in numbers, as these amazing big cats are killed for their skins, poaching, medicine, or …
Dimension Data, a South African tech firm and networking company Cisco, announced a partnership to save rhinos being poached in the country. The technology deployed by the companies will track vehicles and people entering the reserve that is located near the Kruger National Park. The primary goal of the pilot …
There are estimated to be 2,400 one-horned rhinos, out of a global population of 3,300, at the park in Assam A rhino was killed by poachers in India's Kaziranga national park on the same day the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge toured the sanctuary. The adult male rhino was shot …
The seven-day India-Bhutan tour of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Princess Catherine, which commenced with their arrival in Mumbai on Sunday, will conclude in spring-awash Kaziranga with the promise of a grand fund-raiser and an elephant parade next year in India to save the elephant. The …
KLERKSDORP, South Africa - South Africa will decide this month whether to push to end a global ban on buying and selling rhino horn, a move that could unlock a $2 billion (1.40 billion pound) bonanza and determine the fate of a critically endangered species. Rhino horn is prized in …
