Articles for Intl Rhino Foundation

The owner of the Rhino and Lion Nature Reserve said on Friday baby rhino Vuma is settling in well at his new home.

An international crime syndicate is behind an escalation in poaching in Zimbabwe which has slaughtered 65 elephants and 30 rhinos this year, a wildlife official said Monday.

SA National Parks (Sanparks) boss Dr David Mabunda has declared war on rhino and wildlife poachers in the flagship Kruger National Park following the slaughter of more than 90 rhinos across the country this year.

THE horrific killing of another rhinoceros by poachers (“Game parks under siege by rhino poachers,” Weekend Post, September 19) is a wake-up call that our natural resources are under threat from international criminal syndicates.

Six more suspected rhino poachers have been arrested at the Kruger National Park, the SA National Parks (SANParks) said on Wednesday.

The slaughter of a white rhino named Heide from Thula Thula private game reserve brings the year’s total in KZN to 17.

South Africa’s rhino population is under attack, with an estimated 100 gunned down for their horns over the past year — a staggering 1000% increase compared with 2007.

Members of the North West Organised Crime unit were part of a joint operation during which a number of suspects were arrested for the theft of Rhino horn in national, provincial and private game reserves in the North West, Mpumalanga and Limpopo.

A syndicate of 11 suspected poachers, including three Chinese nationals, have been arrested for a spate of rhino slaughters in South Africa's top wildlife areas, authorities said Friday.

Rhino slaughter in KwaZulu-Natal’s wildlife reserves is continuing unabated, and yet another de-horned white rhino carcass has been discovered in Ezemvelo Wildlife’s Hluhluwe-Imfolozi game reserve.

A poacher was shot dead by police after he was found hunting rhino in Komatipoort, Mpumalanga police said on Tuesday.