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

By Dann Okoth Poaching has decimated rhino populations across Africa, but a new study finds that dehorning the animals, or ...

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 ...

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

In a sweeping new study published in Science, researchers found that dehorning rhinos—a painless process akin to trimming a ...

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

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

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Dehorning rhinos reduces poaching by 78% in South Africa’s Greater Kruger region, offering a new solution for overall rhino ...

The benefits of dehorning by far outweigh any ecological cost that we’re aware of today,” according to one rhino researcher.

Poaching has decimated rhino populations across Africa, but a new study finds that dehorning the animals, or surgically removing their horns, drastically reduces poaching. The study focused on 11 ...

Dehorning rhinos can reduce poaching by as much as 78%, making it a significant and cost-effective conservation tool, a ...