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An anti-poaching ranger training program is now offered at SanWild Wildlife Rehabilitation Center and Sanctuary.
South Africa’s SanWild Wildlife Rehabilitation Center and Sanctuary has announced its first program for training rangers in counter poaching methods to protect rhinos and other wildlife.
The first set of courses will begin next week.
The duration of the training [...]
WWF takes a stand for rhinos with a new campaign.
In response to the alarming escalation in rhino poaching, WWF has launched a global campaign to raise awareness and funds for the world’s remaining rhinos.
Over the last five years, more than 600 rhinos have been illegally killed to fuel the demand for rhino horn in [...]
A rhino poacher admits to his crime just before dying.
A rhino poacher who was shot during a gun battle with the Anti-Poaching Unit in the Pilanesberg Reserve reportedly confessed from his hospital bed that he was promised R10,000 to kill and de-horn a rhino.
Musa Zondi of the Anti-Poaching Unit said via Eyewitness News that the [...]
Police have nabbed four men on a Limpopo game farm.
Thanks to a tip, police managed to arrest four Zimbabwean men for attempting to kill rhinos in the Lephalale Game Reserve in Limpopo, South Africa.
Fortunately, they were caught before any rhinos were harmed.
The fate of a Chinese rhino horn smuggler is being considered by the Jiangnan District Court.
A public hearing regarding the case of illegally transporting two rhino horns was reportedly held earlier this week in Jiangnan District Court of Nanning City, Guangxi Province.
The prosecuting attorney recommended that the suspect – a TCM practitioner who confessed [...]
Should trade in rhino horn be legalized?
A vigorous debate about the controversial idea of legalizing trade in rhino horn has erupted and is now in full swing on social media networks and the blogosphere.
Supporters such as Wildlife Ranching South Africa (WRSA) claim that legal trade would be tightly monitored and a way to [...]
A farm in Limpopo is the scene of the latest rhino atrocity.
An armed gang of eight to ten men tied up two workers at a Limpopo farm located between Modimolle and Vaalwater, and then proceeded to kill two rhinos and saw off their horns.
This shocking attack reportedly occurred in broad daylight on Monday afternoon.
Authorities have arrested six rhino poachers near Assam’s Orang National Park.
Four rhino poachers were arrested Saturday as they were plotting to kill rhinos in Assam’s Orang National Park. Thanks to a tip, authorities raided a house in Bihudia village, which is located near the edge of the park.
On Sunday, two more poachers were arrested. [...]
A second rhino was killed by poachers in South Africa this week.
A female rhino has been found dead near Roedtan in Limpopo. She was shot several times, presumably with an R5 assault rifle and her horns were hacked off. Her hamstrings had also been cut.
The rhino was reportedly 40 years old and her front horn [...]
