Articles for Intl Rhino Foundation

HE'S been a long while coming, but here's not-so-little Zamba making his BIG public entrance yesterday - as the first white rhino born in the UK through artificial insemination.

A white rhino was knocked down and killed by a bakkie and subsequently dehorned in a baffling hit-and-run accident in the Weenen Game Reserve on Tuesday night.

Nairobi National Park has eight new rare residents - white rhinos.

The return of rhinos in Uganda’s National Parks and the birth of the first Uganda-born rhino in more than 27 years is a sign Uganda’s tourism potential has got to another level.

SANParks' decision to sell white rhino is scientifically determined and does not endanger their population growth, the organisation said on Wednesday.

Hundreds of white rhino from one of the world's most famous game reserves are to be herded up and sold, many of them to private hunters.

A planned sale of up to 350 rhinoceroses from South Africa's Kruger National Park has run into sharp criticism from animal rights activists.

The five-day-old baby rhino at Nakitoma in Nakasongola district is playful and adorable, the sanctuary managers have said.

The first baby rhino to be born in Uganda for decades has raised hopes for the future of an animal that was wiped out during the bloody regime of former dictator Idi Amin, officials said Monday.

THEY grow up so fast these days. Not to mention growing up so big.

SHERINO, a giant male rhInoceros, lumbers majestically to the walls of its cage, trying to push its enormous head through the metal poles. To our relief, only the tip of its horn emerges.

EASTERN Cape Parks Board has confirmed that once a wounded rhino at Dwesa Nature Reserve has been shot, the hunt to kill a further three rhino in the park would continue.

The culling of six white rhinoceros underway at the Eastern Cape's Dwesa Nature Reserve was met with outrage on Monday.

THREE white rhino have been shot in a State park on the Wild Coast – and three more are set to die as part of a legal but highly controversial government-sanctioned hunt. Outrage and condemnation have followed a decision by the Eastern Cape Parks Board (ECPB) to hunt six white rhino in the Dwesa Nature Reserve because the animals are considered alien species. Although white rhino are protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, ...

Three white rhino have been shot in a State park on the Wild Coast – and three more are set to die by the bullet as part of a perfectly legal but highly controversial government-sanctioned hunt, writes Andrew Stone and Asa Sokopo. Outrage and condemnation have followed a decision by the Eastern Cape Parks Board (ECPB) to hunt six white rhino in the Dwesa Nature Reserve because the animals are considered alien species. Although white rhino are protected under the Convention on International ...

(May 7, 2009) The animal care team from Walt Disney World Resort has been busy since last Mother’s Day, assisting with the births of more than 440 animals and more importantly, helping to ensure that the relationship between mother and child remains uncompromised. While much focus is given to the expert care of the animals during the birthing process, equal attention is given to the delicate and complex mother-child bonding process which uniquely varies among species and among individual ...

2009/05/08 Guy Rogers THREE white rhino were shot dead by hunters in Dwesa Nature Reserve on the Wild Coast yesterday as part of a phased removal of alien species by the Eastern Cape Parks Board. The news had raised rumblings of surprise and concern in the hunting and conservation fraternity yesterday, but the board‘s scientific services head Dr Dave Balfour said the decision to kill the animals had not been taken lightly.  ...

A WHITE rhinoceros has been moved to her own enclosure at Dublin Zoo after killing a zebra.

White rhinoceros Naruna was born last November at the Serengeti Park in Hodenhagen, Germany. She explored her outdoor enclosure recently, accompanied by her mother.

Colchester Zoo has released a male white rhino into its nature reserve in South Africa.