But in a 3,400-kilometer (2,100-mile) journey that involved crates, cranes, trucks, and a Boeing 747, 70 captive bred ...

When Marais approaches the unconscious rhino, he covers its eyes to protect them and then uses a chainsaw to cut off its ...

Both rhino species possess two horns on their snouts, but there are subtle differences in their typical horn configurations. The white rhino’s front horn averages 35-40 inches (90-100 cm) in length, ...

Researchers reveal that cutting off rhino horns is the most effective and cost-efficient method to combat poaching, reducing crime rates by an astonishing 78% in a seven-year study.

How does dehorning a rhino work? Conservationists began dehorning rhinos around 1989. Scientists sedate the rhinos and cover their eyes and ears as they cut the horn off with a chainsaw. It’s also an ...

There are around 17,500 white rhinos and 6,500 black rhinos left in the world, with black rhino numbers reduced from 70,000 in 1970 to less than 2,500 by the time poaching reached a crisis point ...

Vanessa Duthe, a rhino researcher in South Africa not involved in the study, said rhinos use their horns to defend themselves against predators, to compete for territory and, in the case of black ...

A rhino, front, recovers from a tranquilizer, after a hole was drilled into its horn and isotopes carefully inserted, in Limpopo, South Africa, June, 25, 2024 ...

Lucrative illegal markets in parts of southeast Asia and China crave rhino horns for use in traditional medicines, and removing the rhinos' horns takes away what poachers are after. But Tim Kuiper, a ...

There are around 17,500 white rhinos and 6,500 black rhinos left in the world, with black rhino numbers reduced from 70,000 in 1970 to less than 2,500 by the time poaching reached a crisis point ...

The dehorning of rhinos resulted in a nearly 80-percent reduction in the poaching of the animals during a seven-year study in a major South African conservation area, researchers said Thursday.