Jan. 11, 2014— -- The chance to hunt an endangered black rhino will be auctioned off this weekend in Texas, where the Dallas Safari Club has pursued its controversial auction despite public ...

A North Texas man who paid $350,000 for the right to hunt an endangered African black rhino said he's had to hire full-time security due to death threats after his name was leaked onto the Internet.

Texas hunter (and hunting consultant) Corey Knowlton was well aware, when he and a silent partner raised $350,000 for a permit to shoot an African black rhino, that public outrage would be fierce ...

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — The FBI is investigating death threats made against members of the Dallas hunting club that intends to auction off a rare permit to kill an endangered black rhino, an ...

Corey Knowlton bid $350,000 to hunt an endangered black rhino. He hasn’t gone on the hunt and it’s still not clear if he will ever shoot the animal.

Before killing a rhinoceros, a hunter faced death threats. And now Fish and Wildlife is involved.

The death threats against Corey Knowlton have escalated, even as the hunter defends his right to shoot an African black rhinoceros as a way to raise money for conservation.. Knowlton paid $350,000 ...

Death Threats Seen Over Rhino Hunt Auction. ... which could total an estimated $1 million, will go to support the Conservation Trust Fund for Namibia's Black Rhino.

Crackdown on poachers who kill endangered rhinos 02:21. A Malaysian man who sold a dozen black rhino and white rhino horns to a confidential source was sentenced to a year and a half in a U.S ...

For this time in the Potter Park Zoo's 100-year history, a black rhino calf was born. ... Poaching and black-market trafficking of rhino horns were listed as continuous threats to the population.

The 36-year-old hunter from Dallas told CNN the rhinoceros he hunted was an older bull that was considered a threat to the herd, as it was harming younger males.