Rhino horns are composed primarily of keratin ... for the small remaining stub or for other reasons, such as trophy hunting. To enhance the effectiveness of anti-poaching efforts, conservationists ...

Many southern white rhinos in South Africa are under private ownership on rhino farms, where they’re used commercially for breeding, photographic tourism, legal hunting, and horn production.

But suddenly the price of rhino horn was so high that the hunting fees became just a minor cost of doing business. Tourists from Asian nations with no history of trophy hunting began showing up ...

Rhino poaching is an illegal practice that involves the hunting and killing of rhinos for their horns. Despite international ...

The thieves were hunting mostly in Kruger National Park ... But as anti-poaching measures there improved and the price of rhino horn kept soaring, to tens of thousands of dollars a kilogram ...

By the early 1980s, hunting had reduced their numbers to around 19,000. Rhino horns, like our fingernails, are simply keratin, with no special curative powers, yet they’ve long been valued by ...

The winning image from the fifty-third Wildlife Photographer of the Year captures the aftermath of an act of brutality: a dead black rhino, killed for its commercially valuable horn. Museum mammal ...

The eleven suspects are expected to be charged with hundreds, or even thousands of criminal counts, including illegal hunting, weapons and permit violations, illegally trading rhino horn, as well as ...

The rhino horn acts as a tail feather, reducing the risk of spinning (Credit: Micky Wiswedel WWF) Moving endangered rhinos to new areas is a vital part of their conservation. War-torn helicopters ...

You can learn what they use their horns for, how they keep clean and why they love mud! The name 'rhino' is actually short for 'rhinoceros'. The word 'rhinoceros' comes from the Greek words rhino ...