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RARE SUMATRAN RHINO PREGNANCY AT INDONESIAN SANCTUARY
Release Date: 7-Feb-12 Author or Contact: Susie Ellis Category: Press Release Subcategory: Sumatran Rhino
Future of Species Depends on Captive Breeding and Protecting Wild Populations
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IRF Calls for Support of Rhino Security Experts to Combat Poaching Crisis in Southern Africa
Release Date: 29-Nov-11 Author or Contact: Susie Ellis Category: Press Release Subcategory: Stop Poaching Now
The numbers are staggering. Since 1970, nearly 90 percent of the world’s rhino population has been wiped out. In the last two years, more than 800 rhinos have been killed worldwide. In 2011, almost 400 rhinos have been savagely poached in South Africa. And fewer than five percent of poachers are actually convicted.
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Vulnerable Indian Rhinos Successfully Moved to New Habitat
Release Date: 30-Dec-10 Author or Contact: Susie Ellis Category: Press Release Subcategory: Indian Rhino Vision 2020
Assam, India -For only the second time in India's history, two female Indian rhinos, an adult female and a juvenile,have been successfully translocated from Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary to Manas National Park in Assam. The two females join two males that were moved to Manas in 2008. Translocating the rhinos will help create a viable population of this vulnerable species that has recovered from fewer than 200 animals in the early 1990s to ...
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Conservationists Race Against the Clock to Save Critically Endangered Javan Rhinos
Release Date: 7-Sep-10 Author or Contact: Susie Ellis
Operation Javan Rhino to help protect species from natural disaster and disease
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Conservationists Race Against the Clock to Save Critically Endangered Javan Rhinos
Release Date: 7-Sep-10 Author or Contact: Susie Ellis
Operation Javan Rhino to help protect species from natural disaster and disease
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Loss of a Second Critically Endangered Javan Rhino Points to Dire Need for Conservation Action
Release Date: 10-Jun-10 Author or Contact: Susie Ellis Category: Press Release Subcategory: Javan Rhino
The world’s most threatened large mammal species, the Javan rhino, suffered another devastating setback when a carcass was discovered in Indonesia’s remote Ujung Kulon National Park last week.
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Despite pregnancy loss, conservationists still hopeful for Sumatran rhinos
Release Date: 7-Apr-10 Author or Contact: Susie Ellis Category: Press Release Subcategory: Sumatran Rhino
Efforts to save this critically endangered species will continue
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Rare Rhino Pregnancy Gives Hope to Species
Release Date: 17-Feb-10 Author or Contact: Susie Ellis Category: Press Release Subcategory: Sumatran Rhino
Andalas-Ratu love story proves conservation efforts can work.
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International Spotlight: Zimbabwe Rhino Poaching Court Case a Turning Point?
Release Date: 14-Jan-10 Author or Contact: Susie Ellis Category: Press Release Subcategory: Crisis in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe– This month, Tichaona Mutyairi, a Zimbabwe rhino poacher with the infamous Mazhongwe gang, was sentenced to 17 years in jail after being captured during an exchange of gunfire with the police in October 2009. Although a regional court in the town of Masvingo took a strict stance, punishing the poacher to the full extent of Zimbabwe’s wildlife and firearm laws, this sentence remains a rare occurrence among captured poachers. ...
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RHINOS: SPECIES ON THE BRINK
Release Date: 6-Jan-10 Author or Contact: Susie Ellis Category: Press Release Subcategory: Events
Houston Zoo Call of the Wild Speaker Series Resumes January 28 Featuring International Rhino Foundation Executive Director Dr. Susie Ellis
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RISE AND SHINE WITH THE RHINOS
Release Date: 18-Nov-09 Author or Contact: Susie Ellis Category: Press Release Subcategory: Rhino Rendezvous
International Rhino Foundation offers auction for “Rhino Rendezvous”
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PROPOSED MOVE OF NORTHERN WHITE RHINOS FROM CAPTIVITY TO AFRICA
Release Date: 24-Sep-09 Author or Contact: Susie Ellis Category: Press Release Subcategory: Northern White Rhinos
Joint Comments from the International Rhino Foundation and Save the Rhino International
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1,400 Square Feet of Carpet Meets 2,800 Pounds of Rhino
Release Date: 14-Aug-09 Author or Contact: Susie Ellis Category: Press Release Subcategory: Partnerships
Black Rhino at Birmingham Zoo Gives Indoor Carpet the Ultimate Test
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EXPERTS SAY ZIMBABWE RHINO IN “STATE OF CRISIS
Release Date: 16-Apr-09 Author or Contact: Susie Ellis
Greed of Poachers undermining Zimbabwe’s Economic Recovery
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Media Alert: EXPERTS SAY ZIMBABWE RHINO IN “STATE OF CRISIS”
Release Date: 15-Apr-09 Author or Contact: Susie Ellis Category: Media Advisory Subcategory: Crisis in Zimbabwe
The world’s leading rhino experts are issuing an immediate call to action to save the critically endangered black rhinos. A conference call with leaders on three continents will be held this week to discuss the crisis caused by a doubling of poaching incidents in Zimbabwe.
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RHINOS IN FOCUS 2009
Release Date: 5-Feb-09 Author or Contact: Kelly Russo Category: Press Release Subcategory: Annual IRF Photo Contest
International Rhino Foundation hosts rhino photo contest
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Rise and Shine with the Rhinos
Release Date: 19-Nov-08 Author or Contact: Susie Ellis Category: Press Release
International Rhino Foundation offers auction for “Rhino Rendezvous”
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Poachers Walk Free as Assault on Zimbabwe Rhinos Escalates
Release Date: 25-Sep-08 Author or Contact: Sarah Janicke Category: Press Release Subcategory: World Wildlife Fund
A breakdown in law enforcement against rhino poaching and horn smuggling in Zimbabwe is threatening the success of more than a decade's work bringing rhino populations back up to healthy levels.
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CBS joins with International Rhino Foundation
Release Date: 31-Jul-08 Author or Contact: Susie Ellis Category: Press Release Subcategory: Partnerships
Cardboard Safari has joined with the International Rhino Foundation, an organization that is dedicated to the survival of the world’s rhino species through conservation and research, to spread awareness about the plight of the rhino.
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World's rarest rhinos make first video trap appearance - then toss camera
Release Date: 2-Jun-08 Author or Contact: Susie Ellis Category: Press Release Subcategory: Javan Rhino
After just a month in operation, specially designed video cameras installed to capture rhino footage in the jungles of Indonesia have twice recorded remarkable images of the world's rarest rhino accompanied by a calf.
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