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

When most people think of rhino horns, they immediately picture these massive animals charging at predators or defending ...

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 ...

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.

A new study has found that concentrations of essential minerals inside rhino horns are too low to provide consumers with any health benefits, questioning their use in traditional Chinese medicine ...

South Africa aims to come up with a plan by the end of 2030 to end the ban on trading rhino horns. The proposal is controversial because poaching of the animals for their horns has decimated ...

In their senior year, the Hoang brothers founded Rhinoceros Horn LLC, which sought to make and sell a lab-grown version of the chief ingredient found in rhino horns — keratin. But they weren't alone.

It was 2011 when Hoang, a Vietnamese American, first learned about rhino horn poaching. That same year, the Javan rhino was deemed extinct in his home country , and rhinos elsewhere were being ...

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.

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