CNN's John Sutter goes undercover in Southeast Asia to learn why this bizarre, scale-covered mammal -- which has been called a walking pinecone and a modern-day dinosaur -- is trafficked by the ton.

To save rhinos, conservationists are removing their horns Across South Africa, removing the object of poachers’ desire reduced rhino deaths by 78 percent, while it raised the question: What is a ...

“Moving 70 rhinos across the continent is high-risk stuff,” Martin Rickelton, the head of translocations for African Parks, told CNN. So far, the animals appear to be doing well in their new home.

Rhino poaching may be substantially reduced by removing the reason so many rhinos are poached in the first place: their highly valued horns. Dehorning rhinos dramatically drops the poaching rate ...

Two new rhino rehabilitation areas (RRAs) will come up in Dudhwa National Park, in Lakhimpur, and the state government has allocated a budget of ₹ 1.5 crore for the project.

There are fewer than 28,000 rhinos in the world, a steep drop from 500,000 at the start of the 20th century, according to the International Rhino Foundation, a conservation group.

An international study published in Science found that dehorning rhinos resulted in a drastic reduction in poaching of these endangered animals. This is based on the analysis of data across 11 ...

Tackling demand for rhino horn is also essential, Dr. Kuiper said, since without it, there would be no reason to poach. “Dehorning is not a long-term solution,” he said.

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Horned white rhino, undisclosed South African reserve. Credit: Tim Kuiper This week, Chinese researchers reported a nearly complete skull representing the first known sauropod species from East Asia.

Ten black rhinos have been moved from South Africa to Mozambique to secure breeding of the critically endangered animals that became locally extinct 50 years ago, conservationists said Thursday.