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The Battle Creek Chapter of the American Association of Zoo Keepers, Inc (AAZK) is proud to announce their first annual Bowling for Rhinos event. It will take place on July 25, 2008 from 7 to 10 pm at Nottke's Family Fun Center in Battle Creek. For more information visit the Battle Creek AAZK website at www.battlecreekaazk.org or call Binder Park Zoo to speak with an AAZK member (269) 979-1351. Bowling for Rhinos is one of the only nationwide fundraisers that give 100% of all donations... [More Info]

The Houston Chapter of the American Association of Zoo Keepers Hosts Bowling for Rhinos 2008, July 25 at Palace Lanes, 4191 Bellaire Blvd.

Windhoek, Namibia - The Namibian government said Monday it would auction eight live black rhinos to foreign buyers and hundreds of other wildlife to raise funds for conservation purposes. Auction of live animals was approved by government to take place every two years, Fanuel Demas, the director of scientific services in the ministry of environment and tourism, said. Demas said that government would on July 25 auction five female and three male black rhino from the Waterberg Plateau Park and... [More Info]

Guwahati, June 29 (IANS) India’s one-horned rhinoceros faces an uncertain future in the country’s northeast, its main home, because of unending poaching and shrinking of the habitat so vital for the animal’s survival. Last year alone, poachers killed at least 20 rhinoceroses in and around Assam’s sprawling Kaziranga national park. This year, the toll has already reached seven, officials said. The 430-sq km park, with around 1,800 rhinoceroses, has the world’s largest population of this... [More Info]

Guwahati: India's one-horned rhinoceros faces an uncertain future in the country's northeast, its main home, because of unending poaching and shrinking of the habitat so vital for the animal's survival. Last year alone, poachers killed at least 20 rhinoceroses in and around Assam's sprawling Kaziranga national park. This year, the toll has already reached seven, officials said. The 430-sq km park, with around 1,800 rhinoceroses, has the world's largest population of this primitive mammal. ... [More Info]

Mohan, thought to be the world's oldest Indian rhino and the first to wear shoes, turns 39 this month. But as he kicks back and relaxes in a Florida old-age home, his former caretakers, especially in Washington, can't help but reminisce about their time together, like former groupies in a rock star's shadow. "He is one of the icons," says Ron Magill, the communications director for the Miami Metrozoo, who began caring for Mo, as his fans call him, in the early '80s. "That's kind of the... [More Info]

Kenay Wildlife Services seeks to raise number of black rhinos from the current 540 black rhinos to 700 by 2011

June 2008. A controversy is boiling in Namibia's conservation circles. According to CITES, the black rhino is a critically endangered species. However CITES has also relaxed its ban on hunting of the black rhino. The Namibian Ministry of Environment and Tourism, the owner of all black rhinos in Namibia, intends to use the opportunity to shoot five post-reproductive bulls and any 'problem males'. According to sources, the Government sees it as a matter of straight-forward economics as the... [More Info]

Dublin Zoo has welcomed a new and exciting addition to its family with the birth of a female Southern White Rhino.

Peace in the Congo has not yet led to safety for Africa's Big Five, and the meltdown in Zimbabwe is not helping either. The northern white rhino could be extinct already as a result of poaching in north-east Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) Garamba National Park. And black rhino numbers have increased in several countries except Zimbabwe. The Swiss-based International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said there were just 30 white rhino left in April 2003, and only four confirmed... [More Info]

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African rhinos have reached record numbers for the first time in decades, but the Northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) is on the brink of extinction.

The last four northern white rhinoceros remaining in the wild are feared to have been killed for their horns by poachers and are now believed to be extinct in the wild.

Hanoi - Police in Vietnam have arrested two people for smuggling rhino horns and tiger parts, marking the country's second rhino horn smuggling arrest this week, a police officer said Friday. Dau Duc Dung, 31, and Nguyen Thi Loan, 42, were arrested Wednesday at a house in Hanoi with six pieces cut from rhino horns, weighing a total of 1.2 kilograms, according to Nguyen Xuan Dung, a senior police officer in the district. In Loan's handbag, the police found 10 tiger claws, one tiger fang and... [More Info]

After getting by without a name for the first two months of its life, Dubbo's baby white rhino finally has its own moniker - Nadira. The Swinburn family from Castle Hill chose the name, which means "unusual" in Swahili, in The Daily Telegraph's Name a Rhino reader competition. Mum Catherine, whose husband Robert died of cancer two years ago, and her three sons have special memories of their last trip to Taronga Western Plains Zoo in 2005. But they are looking forward to making new... [More Info]

A rare white rhino calf – named Nyala – has been born at a wildlife park in South Cumbria. Mother Ntombi gave birth on Sunday afternoon at South Lakes Wild Animal Park in Dalton-in-Furness following a 16-month pregnancy. The calf was not immediately named as workers did not want to disturb mother and baby to check its gender. The birth is extremely important as there are few breeding pairs in Europe, according to a park spokesman. The park's other female rhino, Tala, is also due to... [More Info]

One of the most visible faces of “save the rhino” campaign in Assam is ready to take his crusade beyond Indian shores. Bibhab Talukdar, who waged a relentless battle against poachers, has been offered a position in the Internat ional Rhino Foundation, and needless to say, he has accepted it. Talukdar, in fact, will be the first person from India to the join the international foundation dedicated to conser vation and research on the endangered species. “It is my pleasure to announce that... [More Info]

New clampdown will control trade in rhino horns.

Hanoi - Police arrested a man accused of smuggling five rhinoceros horns weighing nearly 18 kilograms into the country, an official said Tuesday. Tran Van Lap, 48, was arrested in the northern province of Lao Cai last Saturday on charges of "illegal cross-border transportation of goods," and was brought to Ho Chi Minh City on the same day for interrogation, according to Ly The Son, a senior police officer with Ho Chi Minh City's economic police department. Customs authorities at the city's... [More Info]

KATHMANDU: Nine persons, including a soldier, have been arrested and security tightened in a drive to curb poaching after 11 rhinos were killed over the past ten months at Bardia National Park in western Nepal. "In the coming days, security will be tightened around the National Park in order to curb poaching and wildlife smuggling," Annapurna Das, Director General of the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation, said. Security personnel have arrested a soldier and four... [More Info]