Rhino poaching in South Africa has decreased for the first time since 2007, experts say. Compared to the 1,215 rhinos illegally killed in 2014, only 1,175 rhinos were lost in 2015.

Jorhat/Guwahati: Assam's Kaziranga National Park has lost two rhinos to poachers in four days. With this, the number of rhinos killed this month has risen to three.

GUWAHATI: Kaziranga National Park, a Unesco world heritage site about 250km from here, lost its second rhino to poachers in two weeks on the first month of new year.

The announcement that South African rhino poaching deaths fell slightly in 2015 adds a misleading gloss to another devastating year in which criminal gangs expanded their operations into new, even

CITES called on Tanzania and Mozambique – both of which have lost more than half their elephants since 2009 – to take critical steps against ivory trafficking before its next meeting in September.

The number of rhinos killed by poachers in Zimbabwe more than doubled last year to at least 50, a rhino conservation group has said.

They have existed for more than 50 million years , but now Africa's rhino population is on the verge of disappearing.

The Zoological Society London (ZSL), whose mission is to promote and achieve the world-wide conservation of animals and their habitats, says it may have taken a step closer to fulfilling that with

Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Number of lions in the country, 07/12/2015. The census of all wild animals is not undertaken in the country. However census of tiger is undertaken at the national level once every four years and census of a few other major flagship species is undertaken at the State-level by the respective State/Union Territory governments. As per the latest census, the estimated population of tiger, elephant, lion and rhinoceros as received from the States is given in the Annexure.

The tribunal has also asked about the steps taken by the State of Assam to prevent animal deaths on roads caused due to vehicular traffic

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