Browsing the archives for the Asian rhino tag
There is hope for the world’s 48 Javan rhinos, thanks to a team of international rhino conservation groups.
An exciting project to expand the habitat of the world’s only viable population of critically endangered Javan rhinos is moving forward, thanks to a coalition of international rhino conservation organizations.
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. [...]
Two rhino horn and bear gall bladder smugglers have been arrested just outside Nepal’s capital.
Undercover police have arrested two members of a wildlife smuggling operation near Kathmandu. The officers posed as buyers and confiscated one rhino horn and two bear gall bladders.
Both rhino horn and bear bile are prized ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine.
Forest guards in Orang National Park shot and killed two rhino poachers.
In a midnight gun battle that reportedly lasted half an hour, forest guards in Assam’s Orang National Park managed to shoot and kill two rhino poachers.
Forest officials acted on intelligence reports indicating that a four-member gang had entered the park to kill a rhino, [...]
University students in Nepal are urging the government to award life sentences to rhino poachers.
Students from several universities in Nepal gathered last week to demand that the government amend the National Park and Wildlife Conservation Act of 1973 in order to impose life sentences for the crime of rhino poaching.
Thanks to Suman Bhattarai of PARC/Nepal for providing these beautiful photos of greater one-horned rhinos in Chitwan National Park.
Our wonderful friend Suman Bhattarai of Partnership for Rhino Conservation (PARC/Nepal) has provided us with these fantastic photos of greater one-horned rhinos (Rhinoceros unicornis) in Chitwan National Park. Enjoy!
Kathmandu police have made three arrests and confiscated a rhino horn.
Police officers deployed by the Metropolitan Police Crime Division in Kathmandu have arrested three people involved in a rhino horn smuggling operation, and confiscated a rhino horn. The trio had attempted to sell the horn for Rs. 1.8 million (USD $38,553).
Three people were arrested in West Bengal when they attempted to sell a rhino horn to undercover officers.
A rhino horn was recovered and three people were arrested in Siliguri, West Bengal, when they attempted to sell the horn to undercover police officers posing as rhino horn buyers.
The trio was identified as Mani Kumar Tamang and [...]
