There are no statistically significant differences in key factors of population growth - breeding, birth, survival, life span and death - between dehorned or horned black rhinos new research, ...

Armed with a dart gun in a helicopter hovering above Somkhanda game reserve in South Africa, the vet Dr Mike Toft has just shot a powerful cocktail of drugs into the massive white rhino below. The ...

A study conducted by the University of Bristol Veterinary School in the UK, the Namibian Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism and the Save the Rhino Trust found no evidence dehorning black ...

Dehorning is practised on many South African private reserves and is seen as a way of deterring poachers. Keith Somerville The large bull rhino was about a hundred metres away. The jeep carrying the ...

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Since the start of the year, at least six rhinos have been poached in Etosha National Park, home to the highest concentration of black rhinos in the world. Last week, the Ministry of Environment, ...

A study conducted by the University of Bristol Veterinary School in the UK, the Namibian Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism and the Save the Rhino Trust found no evidence dehorning black ...

A study suggests dehorning rhinos can help reduce poaching amid population declines. Cutting off horns significantly lowers poaching incentives for hunters, according to the study. Between 2017 and ...

A file photo of a de-horned rhino and her calf at the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game Reserve in the KwaZulu Natal province of South Africa. — AP The dehorning of rhinos resulted in a nearly 80% reduction in ...

JOHANNESBURG - The dehorning of rhinos resulted in a nearly 80-percent reduction in the poaching of the animals during a seven-year study in a major South African conservation area, researchers said ...