There are around 17,500 white rhinos and 6,500 black rhinos left, but black rhino numbers were reduced by poaching from 70,000 in 1970 to less than 2,500 by the time poaching reached a crisis ...

How does dehorning a rhino work? Conservationists began dehorning rhinos around 1989. Scientists sedate the rhinos and cover their eyes and ears as they cut the horn off with a chainsaw.

When Marais approaches the unconscious rhino, he covers its eyes to protect them and then uses a chainsaw to cut off its horns, down to about 10 centimeters, which avoids cutting into living ...

Preemptively cutting rhinos’ horns cuts poaching The strategy abruptly reduces poaching rates by about 78 percent This mother rhino, walking with her calf, has had her horn removed proactively ...

COLUMN. According to a study conducted in 11 South African reserves between 2017 and 2023, dehorning reduced poaching by 78%.

Across South Africa, removing the the object of poachers’ desire reduced rhino deaths by 78 percent, while it raised the question: What is a rhino without its horns?

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Cutting off the horns of sedated rhinos with a chainsaw has been viewed by wildlife conservationists in Africa for more than 30 years as a necessary evil to save ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Cutting off the horns of sedated rhinos with a chainsaw has been viewed by wildlife conservationists in Africa for more than 30 years as a necessary evil to save ...

Cutting off the horns of sedated rhinos with a chainsaw has been viewed by wildlife conservationists in Africa for more than 30 ... ''It is a big part of what a rhino is, having a horn,'' Kuiper ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Cutting off the horns of sedated rhinos with a chainsaw has been viewed by wildlife conservationists in Africa for more than 30 years as a necessary evil to save ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Cutting off the horns of sedated rhinos with a chainsaw has been viewed by wildlife conservationists in Africa for more than 30 years as a necessary evil to save the ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Cutting off the horns of sedated rhinos with a chainsaw has been viewed by wildlife conservationists in Africa for more than 30 years as a necessary evil to save ...