Poaching for their horns is one of the biggest threats to white rhinos. Their horns are in demand in Asia, primarily in Vietnam and China, for use in traditional medicines and for artistic carvings.

Scientists in South Africa are going to startling lengths to dissuade poachers from hunting rhinos by implanting radioactive isotopes in their horns ... and while white rhinos in Africa have ...

Every 7 and a half hours in Africa a rhino is killed for its horn. It’s mainly sold on the international black market to be used in traditional Chinese medicine for its supposed healing properties.

Sudan, a northern white rhino and the last male of his ... to eight worldwide because of poachers, who target rhinos for their horns. Workers at the conservancy watch the rhinos around the clock ...

Most likely the surrogate would be a southern white rhino, another subspecies, which has a longer horn, more hair and some 21,000 members still living in southern Africa. But it’s not impossible ...

White rhinos have two horns, the foremost more prominent than the other. Rhino horns grow as much as three inches a year, and have been known to grow up to five feet long. Females use their horns ...