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Hello [firstname], Scientists around the world are following the pregnancy of one of the world's most endangered species, the Sumatran rhino. At the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary in Indonesia's Way Kambas National Park, Ratu has just completed the 11th month of her ...

Chocolate, roses, certificates for free backrubs; you've done it all before. This year give your sweetheart a rhino! Well, we can't actually send a rhino - their weight makes timely shipping a ...

CAPE TOWN - Hunters from certain countries should be refused permits to hunt rhinos in SA if their laws cannot guarantee their trophies will remain in their possession, Parliament was told yesterday. At issue is the fact that the rhino horn is more valuable than the cost of shooting a live animal. This has seen a growth in so-called "pseudo" hunters who legally hunt a rhino only to sell the horn on the black market once they return home. While no countries were ...

Cape Town - The Entabeni Safari Conservancy in Limpopo on Friday disputed a police report stating that the reserve's manager, Jan Lessing, had been arrested for possession rhino horns and elephant tusks. Lessing, 54, appeared in the Naboomspruit Magistrate's Court on Thursday. He is out on R3 000 bail. The conservancy's Pete Richardson said 54-year-old Lessing had "dedicated his life to conservation" and is unsure how the police came to believe that the rhino horns in ...

THE rhinoceros has become the world's most endangered species, amid booming business of the animal's horn, the Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Mr Ezekiel Maige, has said. "The rhino's horn in the contemporary market is a very expensive commodity being sold at over USD 5000 per kilo. A single rhinoceros horn can weigh up to 4 kilograms," he said. Mr Maige was speaking shortly after he had attended an international roundtable discussion in ...

ABOUT 328 rhinos will be illegally hunted for their horns in South Africa this year, unless efforts are stepped up to curb the $20-billion (about R156-billion) trade. A total of 780 white and black rhinos were hunted and killed for their horns in 2010 and 2011, forcing the government to step up protection of the species from syndicates that sell the horns on the black market, mainly in the Far East. Fundisile Mketeni, deputy director-general for biodiversity and ...

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1 / 2 British zoos have been warned their rhinos may be attacked by poachers because of the soaring value of their horns in the Asian medicine market. After a rumour that it could cure cancer, the horn is now worth more than $40,000 a kilo, and gangs have been breaking into museums and ...

"Sota," a black rhino calf born a few years ago in the desert Muntifering patrols, is named after Minnesota. A Save the Rhino Trust patrol captain came up with name after seeing the Minnesota Zoo logo on Muntifering s shirt. ( Courtesy Photo: Minnesota Zoo/Save the Rhino Trust, Namibia) Jeff Muntifering, a Minnesota Zoo conservation biologist and native of Sartell, Minn., spends 10 months of the year in Africa, where ...

Staff make sacrifices to find elusive animal Borneo Rhino Alliance (BORA) chairman Dr Abdul Hamid Ahmad (third from left), BORA executive director Datuk Dr Junaidi Payne (left) and board member Cynthia Ong (fifth from left) join staff in admiring Puntung, the rhinoceros, at the Tabin Wildlife Reserve. Photo courtesy of BORA 1 / 1 THE capture of the elusive female rhino named Puntung at the Tabin Wildlife reserve last month, may have not happened had it ...

Dhekiajuli, Assam, Jan 29: A rhino from Orang National Park strayed into Dhekiajuli tea estate located in Sonitpur district this morning. The tea estate workers panicked as the rhino was spotted roaming inside the tea estate. Divisional forest officer of Orang, Sushil Daila said two rhinos, a male and a female, had strayed out of the park on January 26. While the male rhino returned to the park the same night, the female rhino moved further away from the park. ...

press release Greenpeace Statement on Rhino Poaching in South Africa Greenpeace Africa is deeply saddened by the number of rhinos poached in South Africa last year. We call on the South African government to act decisively to protect rhino populations. According to government records, some 448 rhinos were slain in 2011, of which 252 were killed in the Kruger National Park alone. The number includes the poaching of 19 critically endangered black rhino, of ...

Kim Helfrich The number of rhino poached in South Africa last year was the highest yet recorded, but on the positive side, there are encouraging signs that rhino conservation work is heading in the right direction. Dr Jacques Flamand, head of WWF's (Worldwide Fund for Nature) black rhino range expansion project, said both the black and white rhino populations were still growing, despite the ongoing threat. "The annual growth of the overall rhino population, estimated to ...

I would like to congratulate Michael Eustace (Legal horn trade could save our rhino - and Africa's parks, January 20). His article has shed a lot of light on the matter. I have a few questions, which I am certain others would also like to have answers to. - How will legalising horn trade ensure that the growth in demand for horn will forever remain lower than the rate at which rhinos can produce horn? I don't see this happening. The potential market for horn is not ...

INLSA Looking down the barrel of an AK 47 rifle. Picture: Timothy Bernar Amid shocking predi-ctions that SA's rhinos are headed for extinction within a matter of decades - unless the runaway poaching rate is arrested - bogus hunters from Vietnam, China and Thailand are still slaughtering the country's dwindling rhino population using perfectly legal loopholes in local hunting laws. An official list of hunters who killed rhinos in North-West ...

The alarm bells rang way back in 2003, when the first batch of bogus Eastern "trophy hunters" arrived in SA, home to the largest remaining rhino population in the world. Once the beasts were shot, SA authorised the export of at least nine rhino trophy horns to Vietnam, under the authority of Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) permits. A year later, three more trophies were exported to Vietnam and by 2009 the number of trophies had grown to ...

The flamboyant third son of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi appears to be among the mixed bag of legitimate and bogus "sport hunters" who have taken potshots at SA's dwindling rhino population. The name of Saadi Gaddafi, 38 - now in Niger after fleeing Libya last year - is on an official list of nearly 200 hunters granted permits to shoot rhino in North West over the past three years. Saadi, a former commander of Libya's special forces, a businessman and a soccer ...

Kim Helfrich A radical proposal to downlist the status of the white rhino in terms of the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) was the "only effective measure" to stop the continued plundering of this Big Five species. This assertion comes from the Pretoria-based SA Hunters and Game Conservation Association ahead of public hearings called by the Department of Water and Environmental Affairs into the thorny issue of rhino poaching, the possible institution of a ...

First no matter how many ranger goes to the different parks won't make any difference, as always is an inside job, please tell me how the rhino killers know where they are? & never there is someone that can tell who did it. The Elegant solution will be to make the rhino horns not good for human consumption and at the same time to be detectable anywhere in the world. First to make the rhino horns no good for human consumption: Ask to any of the big pharmaceutical companies to ...

Rhino horns. File photo. Image by: BOBBY YIP / REUTERS Port officials are not adequately checking wildlife shipments for illegal rhino horns, Parliament's environmental affairs committee heard on Thursday. "All ports of entry are managed by home affairs, customs. Therefore we must assume, chair, that they are doing those things, the checking," environmental affairs deputy director general Fundisile Mketeni ...