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?

Could lab-grown rhino horns actually stop poaching? We may never know When a group of startups set out to solve an age-old problem with new technology, they met unexpected resistance from ...

I n Africa, 892 rhinos were poached for their horns in 2018, down from a high of 1,349 killed in 2015. The decline in deaths is encouraging, but conservationists agree that poaching still poses a ...

Poachers break into French zoo and kill rhino to steal tusk 02:21. Palmir, a 10-year-old male rhino, was the first to have his horn cut off on Monday.

“Humankind can do without rhino horn,” said a representative from Kenya during the debate. “It is not medicine.” Thought to be extinct in the late 1800s, the southern white rhino is ...

A–Diana McMeekin, deputy director of the African Wildlife Foundation, said that a rhinoceros horn is made of densely packed fibers of keratin, the material composing hair, fingernails and hooves.

Rhino Horns Are Legal To Sell, South African Court Rules : The Two-Way The decision follows years of legal wrangling over the ban on domestic sales of rhinoceros horn that was enacted in 2009.

A kilogram of rhino horn at its peak went for $65,000. An estimated 12,713 rhinos have been poached in Africa since 2006, the majority in South Africa, according to conservation charity Save the ...