The rifle shot boomed through the darkening forest just as Damien Mander arrived at his campfire after a long day training game ranger recruits in western ... a pregnant black rhinoceros, and ...

By Spoorthy Raman A South African court in January sentenced four poachers to several years in prison for two separate crimes ...

It’s 500 years since rhinos captured the Western imagination ... and short-sighted business of rhino poaching. Dürer was then at the height of his powers, and working under the patronage ...

The western black rhino was declared extinct in 2011 ... trade in rhino horn has been banned since 1977 but, increasingly, poaching has been dominated by armed criminal syndicates.

Global demand for the horns fuels both crude poaching networks in southern African countries (the heartland of the black rhino) and larger organised crime networks. Photojournalist Brent Stirton is ...

A fresh wave of poaching in the past few years, however, is posing a significant threat to this recovery. The western black rhino was also declared extinct in November 2011.

According to the IUCN African Rhino Specialist Group, rhino poaching in South Africa increased from 13 animals killed in 2007 to 1,215 killed in 2014 (the all-time high), a jump of 9,000 percent.

Already, the Western Black Rhino subspecies is extinct ... “The continuing increase in rhinoceros poaching is directly linked to increased demand for rhinoceros horn in Asia, where recent consumer ...

Durban - Wildlife authorities cannot explain the dramatic increase in rhino poaching this year in KwaZulu-Natal. Last year, 97 rhinos were poached in Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife reserves in 2021.