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An elephant was killed and a rhino injured by poachers in Assam, Forest department officials said today.

Rhinos, among the world's most endangered and iconic animals, are being farmed on Chinese wildlife reserves to harvest their horns, a report by international conservation monitors has suggested.

POLICE have seized tiger bones, anteater scales and bear gall bladders in an international operation against the use of endangered plants and animals in traditional medicine.

Poachers shot at and injured a rhino inside Kaziranga National Park last evening.

In a well-orchestrated operation to clamp down illicit trade in traditional medicines across the globe, Interpol seized medicines containing illegal ingredients from animals ranging from the tiger, bear to rhinoceros.

species were confiscated in Gauteng during a police operation this week, a police spokesperson said on Friday.

Tanzania said Saturday it will press for permission to sell around 100 tonnes of elephant tusks to reduce its huge stockpile and use the money to combat poaching.

White rhino is a slang term for high-grade marijuana.

Last year marked the highest number of rhinos ever poached in Kenya.

They toil hard and unsung with minimum bare facilities to protect the endangered rhino along with other animals and it is their conservation efforts that has brought fame and glory to Assam's Kaziranga National Park.

City zoo officials may not exactly be on the horns of a dilemma, but prolonged bachelorhood of this aging rhino is certainly making them a little restless.

The release of six alleged rhino poachers from custody two weeks before a meeting of the largest wildlife trade convention is emblematic of the chronic lack of political will to enact enforcement efforts required to save this endangered species.

Rhinoceroses have been roaming our planet for more than 50 million years. Myths abound about these beautiful creatures and the powers they hold such as their horn's ability to stop the aging process, their reputation as nature's first firefighters and that they truly look other-worldly. At one time, rhinoceroses were abundant and a common sight in their habitat. In the last century, however, due to illegal poaching and the destruction of the forests and savannah in which they lived, the ...

Giving a ray of hope to the people of not only Assam but the international community as a whole, as many as 18 rhinos are to be trans-located to the Manas National Park-cum-Tiger Project within three months.

Poachers have killed a female rhino inside the Chitwan National Park.

Structure originally intended to save endangered black rhino succeeds in protecting forest and river sources

Eight more white rhinoceros have been killed by poachers in the Kruger National Park, despite the deployment of high-tech equipment and extra rangers at so-called 'hot spots' within the flagship reserve.

A desperate forest department today turned to the BSF for help to check poaching of rhinos in Kaziranga National Park.

Poachers struck again last night at Kaziranga National Park, killing a rhino and taking away its horn.

Ujung Kulon National Park is planning to develop a 3000 hectare conservation area for the endangered Javan rhino next year in an effort to boost the population of the endangered species by 2015.