Tag: rhino

Over 500 rhinos were poached for their horns in South Africa in the first eight months of 2018, a 26 percent fall...

Rhino poaching is on the decrease in the Kruger National Park, partly due to there being fewer rhinos in the park, and...

Malaysia seized rhino horn worth nearly $12 million bound for Vietnam, in its largest haul of such contraband, officials said. Wildlife experts say...

Poaching is not a one-dimensional problem and cannot be solved by militarisation alone Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa told the African Ranger...

In just over two weeks, Kruger National Park officials and rangers arrested 23 suspected rhino poachers and confiscated 10 high calibre rifles. The...

Poachers killed a 12-year-old black rhino in Kenya's Lake Nakuru national park, the national wildlife agency said, days after authorities announced 10...

At least two rhino poachers were eaten by lions on a South African game reserve, the owner said. A ranger taking guests at...

The Kenya Wildlife Service has started moving 14 black rhinos to a sanctuary in the south east of the country to offer...

South African National Parks (SANParks) has welcomed the sentencing of a rhino poaching to five years' imprisonment. SANParks today said it continues to...

South African National Parks (SANParks) on 19 June announced the arrest of two field rangers suspected of being involved in rhino poaching....

Six Southern African Development Community (SADC) states who are "closely knit" have undertaken to co-operate to deal with the scourge of poaching,...

Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has congratulated the investigating team that spearheaded the arrest of two people in Gauteng for allegedly dealing...

Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa told Parliament this week she was "cautiously optimistic the tide is being turned on the scourge of...

Dimension Data and Cisco will be expanding their anti-poaching Connected Conservation programme into Zambia, Kenya, and Mozambique to continue protecting rhinos and...

For the first time in 46 years, the black rhino will roam the Central African country, Chad, following the successful translocation of...

Three rhino were found dead with their horns missing in Kenya's Rhino Sanctuary in Meru National Park in what the country's Ministry...

South Africa's Minister of Environmental Affairs, Dr Edna Molewa on 3 May witnessed the loading and departure of black rhinos from the...

Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa said the arrest of 10 alleged poachers in the Kruger National Park was yet another example of...

The arrest of a policeman based at Skukuza in Kruger National Park in connection with allegations of poaching has been noted by...

Twelve suspected rhino poachers have been arrested in the Kruger National Park in the last week, South African National Parks has announced. On...

Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has welcomed lengthy sentences handed down to rhino poachers as well as the arrest of five people...

South African ranchers launched an online market for rhino horn on Monday, saying the open trade would help squeeze poachers out of...

No less than 21 people in the South Africa law enforcement sector were arrested for poaching related offences last year, Environmental Affairs...

KwaZulu-Natal's Hluhluwe iMfolozi Park (HiP) is often referred to as the "birthplace of rhino" in reference to conservation efforts there some 50...

A team of university students is preparing to begin flight tests early next year of their AREND unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which...

Namibia recorded fewer cases of rhino and elephant poaching this year compared to recent years, the minister of environment and tourism said....

South Africa will relocate six endangered black rhinos to Chad where the animal was hunted to local extinction decades ago, the environment...

Environmental Affairs Minister, Edna Molewa, calls on all South Africans to join hands with government to put an end to rhino poaching...

South African National Parks (SANParks) is once again calling for assistances in the fight against the scourge of rhino poaching particularly in...

The Internet of things (IOT) is being used to study animal behaviour, which will hopefully lead to better conservation efforts in and...

Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife is tightening its security in an effort to prevent rhino poaching. "Ezemvelo has strengthened its manpower by recruiting an additional...

Environmental Affair Minister, Dr Edna Molewa, has welcomed the arrest of a Chinese national for rhino horn smuggling and the recent sentencing...

Since 2006, Southern Africa has been facing an increasing poaching crisis. The securitisation of national parks and private reserves has become a...

South Africa's first legal auction of rhino horns opened for bids yesterday and 264 horns went on sale after the owner of...

The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has emphasised the support it gives South African National Parks (SANParks) in the fight against...

Rangers in the Kruger National Park (KNP) have been involved in two contacts with suspected poachers, leaving one poacher fatally injured, while...

The owner of the world's biggest private rhino herd took court action on Thursday to force South Africa's government to allow its...

Technology is making some small gains in the fight against rhino poaching in SA. This emerged from environmental affairs minister Edna Molewa's speech...

Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has welcomed the arrest of an alleged rhino horn smuggler at the OR Tambo International Airport. "The action...

More proof of the Kruger National Park's "attraction" for poachers is that well over half of arrests nationally in connection with wildlife,...

South Africa's rhino population decreased by 529 in the first six months of this year, 13 less than the same period last...

Being part and parcel of counter-poaching operations has always been a ranger's duty and the massive surge in rhino poaching in recent...

No less than six rhinos were killed by poachers in Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife's flagship game reserve, Hluhluwe-Imfolozi, in a night at the...

Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) chief whip Narend Singh has pointed to another bleak year for conservation of one of South Africa's iconic...

A decade after poachers wiped out its native population of rhino Rwanda has reintroduced the animals to its national parks flying a...

In spite of a drop in rhino poaching in the Kruger National Park, South African National Parks (SANParks) officials have cautioned that...

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Malaysian authorities seized about $3.1 million worth of rhino horn flown in from Mozambique via Qatar, the latest seizure in Asia of...

Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa says the department will study the Constitutional Court order that dismissed the leave to appeal the application...

South Africa's top court has dismissed an appeal by the department of environmental affairs to keep a moratorium on the domestic trade...