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

One by one, the rhinos were sedated, blindfolded, and surrounded by a team wielding a power saw. In a few minutes, their ...

Dehorning rhinos dramatically drops the poaching rate compared with other tactics, researchers report June 5 in Science. The researchers suggest that no other anti-poaching intervention — such as ...

Taking the relatively simple step of trimming the horns of wild rhinoceroses is enough to dramatically reduce the rate at ...

A study published in the academic journal Science has found that cutting off the horns of rhinos in Africa leads to a ...

At the end of April, poachers broke into the Imire Rhino and Wildlife Conservancy in Zimbabwe in search of rhinoceros horn—an ...

Poaching is a major threat to rhinoceroses around the world. In South Africa alone, more than 400 rhinos are killed every ...

Black and white rhino populations in the Greater Kruger (Kruger National Park and surrounding reserves) in South Africa have ...

A new study has revealed that dehorning rhinos is one of the most effective and cost-efficient strategies for reducing ...

An international study published in Science found that dehorning rhinos resulted in a drastic reduction in poaching of these ...

Across South Africa, removing the the object of poachers’ desire reduced rhino deaths by 78 percent, while it raised the ...

Poaching rates dropped by more than half in African reserves where veterinarians removed the animals’ horns, which are in ...