From caring for household pets to wild animals, a Purdue-University educated veterinarian takes her skills beyond central ...

Rhino dehorning became a common strategy in Southern Africa as poaching ramped up a decade or so ago. The procedure, which is thought to be painless, involves sedating rhinos and then sawing off the ...

When Marais approaches the unconscious rhino, he covers its eyes to protect them and then uses a chainsaw to cut off its horns, down to about 10 centimeters, which avoids cutting into living ...

At the end of April, poachers broke into the Imire Rhino and Wildlife Conservancy in Zimbabwe in search of rhinoceros horn—an incredibly valuable commodity on the international market. The poachers ...

Both rhino species possess two horns on their snouts, but there are subtle differences in their typical horn configurations. The white rhino’s front horn averages 35-40 inches (90-100 cm) in length, ...

Researchers reveal that cutting off rhino horns is the most effective and cost-efficient method to combat poaching, reducing crime rates by an astonishing 78% in a seven-year study.

Over the decades, countries and organizations have spent large amounts on protecting rhinoceros populations from poaching due to the multimillion-dollar black market trade in rhinoceros horns.

Lucrative illegal markets in parts of southeast Asia and China crave rhino horns for use in traditional medicines, and removing the rhinos’ horns take away what poachers are after. But Tim Kuiper, a ...

Rhinos have long been targeted by poachers for their horns, and the illegal trade has contributed to the significant decline of their population. Now, conservationists have come up with a strategy to ...

In an effort to save the rhinoceros from poachers, conservationists have been cutting off their horns. Evidence of whether the efforts are effective or not was scant until a new study was released ...

Vanessa Duthe, a rhino researcher in South Africa not involved in the study, said rhinos use their horns to defend themselves against predators, to compete for territory and, in the case of black ...