African rhino populations are increasing despite poaching and habitat loss, new figures from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) show. The new figures, released Thursday, ...

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 Sumatran rhino looks like it wandered out of another era and somehow got lost in the present day. Smaller than its ...

People have had a devastating impact on African elephant and rhino numbers, but in parts of Africa we’re helping these amazing animals to recover People have had a devastating impact on African ...

DINOKENG GAME RESERVE, South Africa (AP) — The Dinokeng Game Reserve in South Africa has a thriving rhino population, but their exact numbers and the details of the security operation that keeps them ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A rhino in South Africa that survived an attack by poachers who cut off her horns, leaving a massive wound on her face, has had a setback in her medical treatment. However, ...

Nelson Mandela University provides support as an endorsing partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Rhino translocations have become a critical tool in the arsenal for the protection of these endangered ...

The number of African rhinos poached in 2015 is higher than previously thought with new figures from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) showing that a record 1,338 were killed ...

They became the endangered ones. A South African conservationist got a closer wildlife encounter than intended after he was charged by an angry black rhinoceros, which forced him to flee up a tree.

Demand for rhino horn, used in traditional Chinese medicine, is fueling a slaughter of the animals in Africa. In Vietnam, the sought-after... Vietnam's Appetite For Rhino Horn Drives Poaching In ...