Could lab-grown rhino horns actually stop poaching? We may never know When a group of startups set out to solve an age-old problem with new technology, they met unexpected resistance from ...

"It is better than the impacts of poaching." Officials discover unconventional solution to prevent rhino poaching: 'We might ...

When Marais approaches the unconscious rhino, he covers its eyes to protect them and then uses a chainsaw to cut off its ...

Rhino horns may be the key to saving the endangered species from a potentially fatal condition: iron overload disorder. ... Donelan turns horn samples into powder and extracts the DNA.

John Hume has been breeding rhinos since 1993 and owns the world's largest rhino farm in South Africa. He fought a global ban on trading rhino horn, which would allow him to sell it to pay for his ...

But even if rhino horn possesses dubious medicinal properties, that doesn't mean it has no effect on people who take it, says Mary Hardy, medical director of Simms/Mann UCLA Center for Integrative ...

When a group of startups set out to solve an age-old problem with new technology, they met unexpected resistance from conservationists who saw the idea as misguided at best — and dangerous at worst.

It was 2011 when Hoang, a Vietnamese American, first learned about rhino horn poaching. ... Early complaints centered on his initial idea of producing synthetic rhino horn powder.

Engineered rhino horns, to many conservationists, ... After college, the Hoang brothers struggled to convince merchants that their synthetic horn powder trumped the real thing, ...