Poachers in South Africa killed more than 100 rhinos in the first three months of this year, most of them inside national parks — highlighting an ongoing battle to protect one of the best-known ...

The Racine Zoo is saying goodbye to one of its most recognizable animals. Zoo officials announced female Eastern Black Rhino ...

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The new eastern black rhinoceros is believed to be about six months old A new eastern black rhino has been born in the wild in Kenya The critically endangered rhino calf brings the small subpopulation ...

Due to poaching, fewer than 600 rhinos are left in the wild, making the calf's birth a triumphant moment Chester Zoo A zoo in England is celebrating the arrival of a very special new resident. On Nov.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The number of critically endangered black rhinos has increased slightly, but there is bad news for other rhino species, according to a global count released Thursday by the ...

So, who is helping protect the rhinoceros? I aimed to explore this question while I was in South Africa in June. Staying on the grounds of the Makalali Game Reserve, I learned about the various ...

A South African university launched an anti-poaching campaign Thursday to inject the horns of rhinos with radioactive isotopes that it says are harmless for the animals but can be detected by customs ...

South African scientists on Tuesday injected radioactive material into live rhino horns to make them easier to detect at border posts in a pioneering project aimed at curbing poaching. The country is ...

A lifelong anti-poaching champion was gored to death by the approximately 2,900-pound black rhino he was trying to protect on a South African wildlife reserve. Schoeman van Jaarsveld, 58, was on a ...