Mozambique burned 2.5 tonnes of seized ivory and rhino horn on Monday as part of a campaign to end an illicit trade that is fueling a wave of big animal poaching in Africa, a conservation group sai

GUWAHATI: Jorba, the lone sniffer dog deployed in Assam's Kaziranga National Park to combat rhino poachers, will now have company.

Rwanda reintroduced lions, flown in from South Africa, to its Akagera National Park this week after the last indigenous animal was spotted in 2006 and plans to add rhinos within a year as it bids t

Guwahati: Karina, a German Shepherd specially trained to track poachers, arrived at Kaziranga National Park in the state on Sunday.

A gang of poachers killed a rhino near Kathal Chang forest camp under Burhapahar forest range in Kaziranga National Park (KNP) on Sunday night around 8.30 pm and managed to flee with the horn.

The onslaught on the World’s rhinoceroses continues despite numerous initiatives aimed at curbing it. When losses due to poaching exceed birth rates, declining rhino populations result. We used previously published estimates and growth rates for black rhinos (2008) and white rhinos (2010) together with known poaching trends at the time to predict population sizes and poaching rates in Kruger National Park, South Africa for 2013.

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A biotech firm has managed to 3D print fake rhino horns as part of a bid to curb poaching.

A series of raids conducted across Asia, Africa and Europe resulted in more than 300 arrests and over 600 seizures of assorted wildlife contraband — from several tons of ivory and rhino horns to wh

Harare, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe loaded five black rhinos onto a plane bound for Botswana on Wednesday, its first such exports since the 1990s, as part of conservation efforts amid an increase in poachi

Windhoek — The escalation in the poaching of rhinos, elephants and other valuable wild animals in the Etosha National Park and around the country's parks has prompted the Namibia Wildlife Resorts (

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