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Rhino Poaching Awareness Poster [Warning: Graphic Image]

Saving Rhinos’ latest rhino poaching awareness poster is now available for you to download, print, and share: “This … Not This” is the theme.

Rhino poaching is an ugly issue – and Saving Rhinos’ latest public awareness poster delivers the message with a graphic photo of a greater one-horned rhino murdered by poachers, positioned in sharp [...]

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Book of the Week: ‘The Soul of the Rhino: A Nepali Adventure with Kings and Elephant Drivers, Billionaires and Bureaucrats, Shamans and Scientists, and the Indian Rhinoceros’ by Hemanta Mishra

This week’s book is “The Soul of the Rhino: A Nepali Adventure with Kings and Elephant Drivers, Billionaires and Bureaucrats, Shamans and Scientists, and the Indian Rhinoceros” by Hemanta Mishra, with forewords by Bruce Babbitt and Jim Fowler.

Book Summary: The Soul of the Rhino is the uniquely personal journey of Hemanta Mishra, the native Nepali [...]

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Rhino Horn Stockpiles to Be Publicly Burned in Assam

Wildlife authorities in Assam have made a radical decision to grab the rhino poaching crisis by the horns.

Assam wildlife authorities have joined together to give the international community a taste of old-school activism: The public burning of 1,500 stockpiled rhino horns.

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Multiple Threats Thwarting Rhino Protection Efforts in Assam’s Orang National Park

Forest guards entrusted to protect rhinos from poachers in Orang National Park are fighting an uphill battle against a deadly combination of obstacles.
Despite repeated attempts to apprehend poachers in Assam’s Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park, forest guards continue to be outdone by a seemingly insurmountable set of circumstances: Local villagers who work in collaboration with [...]

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Orang Rhino Poachers Arrested

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Four poachers who recently murdered a female rhino in Orang National Park have been apprehended by authorities.
Successful raids on Beesimari and Rongagora villages along the Brahmaputra River led police and forest authorities to four men believed responsible for killing a female rhino in Orang National Park.

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Rhinos ‘Terrorizing’ Locals Near Chitwan National Park

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Four people living in western Chitwan have recently been injured by rhinos.
Locals in western Chitwan have alleged that rhinos are entering human settlements and “terrorizing” people. However, park authorities believe the rhinos have become more aggressive because they have been teased by people.

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Rhino Killed in Orang National Park, Forest Guards Close in on Poachers

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The body of a female rhino was found last night in Orang National Park, where forest guards believe the poachers are still hiding.
After hearing gunfire last evening, forest guards in Orang National Park surprised a group of poachers who had recently shot a female rhino and hacked out her horn.

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Cincinnati Zoo’s Indian Rhino ‘Nikki’ Expecting Calf via Artificial Insemination (Video)

Nikki, a female Indian rhino at Cincinnati Zoo, will give birth in October 2010 to a calf conceived via artificial insemination.
Thanks to Cincinnati Zoo’s state-of-the-art research facility CREW (Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife), a baby Indian rhino is on the way!
And Nikki, the pregnant female rhino, has never even met the baby’s father: Her [...]

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2 Rhinos Killed in Kaziranga by Poachers Posing as Park Visitors

Two greater one-horned rhinos were found murdered with their horns missing inside India’s Kaziranga National Park – and authorities believe it was the work of poachers posing as park visitors.
Forest guards covering the Agartoli range of Kaziranga National Park have discovered the bodies of a male and female rhino – both with their horns removed.
Officials [...]

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Railway Track Creates Unexpected Habitat for Rhinos

India’s Bagha-Chitauni rail link has unexpectedly created a swampy new home for a family of rhinos.
Although in the 1990’s, Bihar forest officials fought – and lost – a legal battle to stop the railway track relaying project, today they couldn’t be happier: The obstruction has created 1,000 hectares of swampy rhino habitat.

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