South Africa's High Court has lifted a ban on the local trade in rhino horn imposed by the government in 2009 after finding that the state had not followed the process of public participation befor

A northern white rhinoceros, one of just four left on Earth, died on Sunday at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park after suffering from a bacterial infection and age-related health issues, zoo officials

South Africa has stepped up its efforts to fight rhino poaching in the country’s flora and fauna-rich nature reserves, Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has said.

With large-scale hotels in and around the world heritage site of Kaziranga National Park (KNP) posing a threat to wildlife, especially the one-horned rhinoceros, the National Green Tribunal has sou

Poachers managed to kill another rhino at Kaziranga, a world heritage site about 250 km from here, on Sunday, barely a week after the national park was opened to visitors.

A series of deaths of orangutans further confirms the destruction of Indonesia’s forests, contributing to the problem of global climate change.

Poaching and the trade in illegal animal goods have been placed in the same category as drug and weapons smuggling by a new law passed in the US.

The battle against the poaching that kills a rhino every seven hours in South Africa has acquired a new weapon: women.

Hundreds of illegal hunters of the rhinoceros in South Africa’s Kruger national park have been shot dead by rangers in the past five years, but the temptation of a rich reward to end an impoverishe

A mostly female anti-poaching unit from South Africa has won a top environmental award at the United Nations.