Across 11 nature reserves in South Africa, scientists found that dehorning black (Diceros bicornis) and white rhino ...

A study published in the academic journal Science has found that cutting off the horns of rhinos in Africa leads to a ...

There are five species of rhinoceros alive today, each of which has its own unique physiological and environmental ...

A new Kruger National Park study has conclusively found that dehorning rhino can save most from poachers, but some will still ...

The dehorning of rhinos resulted in a nearly 80-percent reduction in the poaching of the animals during a seven-year study in ...

The black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis), also known as the hook-lipped rhinoceros, is one of two species of rhino found in Africa. (The other is the white rhino.) Here are some fascinating black ...

Dehorning rhinos dramatically drops the poaching rate compared with other tactics, researchers report June 5 in Science. The researchers suggest that no other anti-poaching intervention — such as ...

More ornery than white rhinos, their larger and more populous cousins, black rhinos are a critically endangered species: Only 5,500 to 6,000 individuals remain, 36 percent of them in South Africa.

These include two African rhino species - black and white rhinos. The remaining three are Asian rhino species, which include greater one–horned, Sumatran and Javan rhinos. The Sumatran, Javan and ...

Scientists count three rhino species in Asia and two in Africa, white and black. (The Asian species are even more rare than the African.) Black rhinos were knocked down by the poaching crisis of ...

The number of white rhinos increased from 15,942 in 2022 to 17,464 in 2023, but numbers of the black and greater one-horned rhino stayed the same, according to the report published by the ...

The translocation will see 21 critically endangered eastern black rhinos moved from the neighbouring Ol Pejeta Conservancy to ...