Tag: rhino

The Kruger National Park (KNP) is seeing some success in reducing the number of rhinos killed, with rhino deaths down for 2016,...

Thirteen suspected poachers have been apprehended in the Kruger National Park (KNP) in three separate operations as the Park continues the fight...

Canine in the Kruger National Park – used for tracking and capturing poachers as well as detecting contraband like firearms and rhino...

Ten suspected poachers have been apprehended in the Kruger National Park (KNP) in the last week, but a ranger has been shot...

A group of three poachers move silently through the bush, hidden from the naked eye by the night. Armed with a rifle...

Thai customs have confiscated 21 rhino horns with an estimated value of nearly $5 million in the biggest such seizure in Thailand...

Poachers broke into a French zoo, shot dead a rare white rhinoceros and sawed off its horn in what is believed to...

The SA Police Service continues to close the net on suspected rhino poachers in ongoing efforts to prevent and combat wildlife-related crime...

The Namibian Intelligence Support Against Poaching (ISAP) anti-poaching group has taken delivery of a Piper P-18 Super Cub light utility aircraft that...

Endangered black rhinos in the Mkomazi National Park in Tanzania will be fitted with Internet of things (IOT) sensors to monitor their...

A South African, 31 Zambians and seven Mozambicans were among 443 people arrested in Zimbabwe in 2016 for poaching, the national parks...

The effectiveness of horses in anti-poaching operations is being tested by way of a pilot project in the northern part of the...

A new wide area surveillance system has been taken into use in the Kruger National Park. Known as the Postcode Meerkat, in recognition...

A British Army team from 1 (UK) Division will deploy early in the new year to train Malawi park rangers as combat...

In April 2016, Kenyan officials built 11 massive piles of confiscated ivory and rhino horn in Nairobi National Park and set them...

The national conservation agency SANParks in partnership with the Peace Parks Foundation (PPF) next month launches what is termed an "innovative wide...

South African National Parks (SANParks) has announced the arrest of 14 suspected poachers in the Kruger National Park (KNP) in the past...

SANParks honorary rangers has made yet another major contribution to the ongoing anti- and counter-poaching operations in the Kruger National Park, another...

The Air Shepherd programme, which supports the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to combat wildlife poaching, has announced an additional UAV...

The 17th meeting of the UN's Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has been meeting in Johannesburg, with ivory, rhinos...

The campaign to track down poachers and protect endangered species in Africa's embattled reserves is tapping into the technology used in the...

A 48-year-old Chinese national was arrested at the O.R Tambo International Airport for allegedly smuggling rhino horns which are estimated to value...

In just over three weeks South Africa will the conference of the parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species...

Zimbabwe plans to dehorn its 700-strong rhino population to discourage poaching after 50 animals were illegally killed last year, a wildlife conservation...

The arrest this week of a Kruger National Park ranger in connection with rhino poaching is sad but at the same time...

One of the Kruger National Park's regional rangers, together with a veterinarian technician in the Government's Department of Agricultural and Forestry, Animal...

September and South Africa's hosting of the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species...

Zimbabwe's wildlife authority has suspended its director general and is investigating the disappearance of 228 kg (500 pounds) of the agency's stored...

Botswana has taken delivery of 14 Bat Hawk light surveillance aircraft, which will be deployed in air-borne anti-poaching patrols to protect elephants...

An executive with a Beverly Hills gallery and auction house was sentenced on Wednesday to one year and one day in prison...

A group of American military veterans plans to train rangers at private wildlife farms and reserves in South Africa where rhino poachers...

South Africa's department of environmental affairs said on Wednesday an on-again-off-again moratorium on domestic trade in rhino horn had been reinstated after...

Minister of Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa has condemned the poaching and dehorning of two rhino at the Rietvlei Nature Reserve on Thursday...

South Africa's department of environmental affairs said on Tuesday it would study and respond later to a court ruling last week which...

Member states of the U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) are not meeting until September, but some African countries...

Kenya's president set fire to thousands of elephant tusks and rhino horns on Saturday, destroying a stockpile that would have been worth...

The future of Africa's elephants and rhinos depends on the ability of the continent's nations to battle together against poaching, Kenya's president...

South Africa-headquartered technology company Dimension Data and networking company Cisco have announced an initiative aimed at dramatically reducing the number of rhinos...

Wildlife groups plan to relocate 80 rhinoceros from South Africa to Australia in a bid to prevent them being hunted to extinction,...

South Africa will not allow commercial trading of rhino horns and will maintain its policy of stockpiling, a cabinet minister said on...

Game wardens in Zimbabwe have killed a black rhino popular with tourists to end its suffering after suspected poachers shot and severely...

South Africa will decide this month whether to push to end a global ban on buying and selling rhino horn, a move...

The number of African rhinos killed by poachers has increased for the sixth year in a row with at least 1,338 rhinos...

An executive with a Beverly Hills gallery and auction house has pleaded guilty of conspiring to smuggling at least $1 million in...

The German government has donated two Husky fixed wing light aircraft to Tanzania National Parks and Tanzania Wildlife Authority in an effort...

The German government has donated two Husky fixed wing light aircraft to Tanzania National Parks and Tanzania Wildlife Authority in an effort...

South Africa's High Court has lifted a ban on the local trade in rhino horn imposed by the government in 2009 after...

Twelve suspects, including three police officers arrested in a joint Hawks operation for alleged rhino poaching, will appear in court this morning. The...

A Tanzanian court has charged four Chinese nationals for smuggling rhino horns, a senior police official said on Wednesday, pointing to further...

Four men appeared before the White River Magistrate's Court in Mpumalanga on Monday after they were caught hunting rhino in the Kruger...