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Javan rhino numbers plunge; Sumatran rhinos remain near extinction: Report

Jeremy Hance 13 Aug 2025
Sharon Haussmann,. Image courtesy of Greater Kruger Environmental Protection Foundation.

Sharon Haussmann, guardian of rhinos, died on May 31, aged 51

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Jul 2025
Yunhua Lin, left, at the court in Malawi in 2021. Image courtesy of EIA.

‘Shock and alarm’ as Malawi pardons wildlife trafficker Lin Yunhua

Madalitso Wills Kateta 16 Jul 2025
A dehorned white rhino with her calf. Image courtesy of Tim Kuiper.

To reduce rhino poaching — by a lot — cut off their horns, study says

Dann Okoth 17 Jun 2025
A southern white rhino explores its surrounding after translocation from South Africa to Rwanda's Akagera National Park. Image © Gael Vande Weghe.

Seventy southern white rhinos arrive at their new home in Rwanda from South Africa

Graeme Green 10 Jun 2025
Pangolin at the Lilongwe Wildlife Centre in 2022

High-profile wildlife trafficking case tests Malawi’s conservation commitment

Madalitso Wills Kateta 10 Jun 2025

US funding shortfall halts Nepal’s rhino census, sparks debate over methods

Deepak Adhikari 29 May 2025

Indonesia convicts trafficking accomplice in a Javan rhino poaching scandal

Donny Iqbal 28 May 2025
Community rangers guard elephants in Sera Conservancy, Northern Rangelands, Kenya.

Wildlife crime crackdown in jeopardy worldwide after US funding cuts

Carolyn Cowan, Philip Jacobson, Spoorthy Raman, Charles Mpaka, Hans Nicholas Jong, Gerald Flynn 22 May 2025

Nepal collaborates with neighbors to gain wildlife crime intel but struggles with enforcement

Kosh Raj Koirala 26 Mar 2025
A Bharatpur Metropolitan City truck ferries municipal waste inside the Barandabhar forest in Chitwan. Image by Rajesh Ghimire.

Chitwan city using Indo-Nepal wildlife corridor for waste dump

Rajesh Ghimire 11 Mar 2025

Rhino poachers imprisoned in back-to-back South Africa sentencing

Spoorthy Raman 10 Feb 2025

Vietnam faces scrutiny for not sharing enough data on rhino horn trade

Victoria Schneider 5 Feb 2025
Banner image of a white rhino at Kruger National Park in South Africa, by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Rhino horn trafficker jailed in legal first on financial charges in S. Africa

Kristine Sabillo 27 Jan 2025
Sunda pangolin

Vietnam grapples with ‘alarming popularity’ of online illegal wildlife trade

Carolyn Cowan 27 Jan 2025

Namibian conservancies fight to block mining threat to rhinos

Victoria Schneider 2 Dec 2024

Nepal’s rhino translocations to continue amid concerns over effectiveness

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Nov 2024
Juvenile one-horned rhinos at a rescue center in Chitwan. Image by Abhaya Raj Joshi

Nepal’s top court to rule next month on law allowing development in protected areas

Abhaya Raj Joshi 25 Nov 2024

More alarms over Indonesia rhino poaching after latest trafficking bust

Donny Iqbal, Nopri Ismi 5 Sep 2024
argeting demand for rhino horn-based products must complement efforts to protect rhinos from poaching. Image by Geranimo via Unsplash.

As a medicine, study finds rhino horn useless — and potentially toxic

Juliette Portala 3 Sep 2024

Patents can serve as early-warning system for wildlife trade trends

Mongabay.com 2 Sep 2024
The translocation team leads a sedated rhino to a crate and its journey to a new home. Image © Michael Dexter/African Parks.

African Parks embarks on critical conservation undertaking for 2,000 rhinos

Simon Espley 22 Aug 2024

Javan rhino poaching saga reveals serious security lapse

Mongabay Indonesia 2 Aug 2024

Nepal’s railway rerouting plan to avoid Chitwan park sparks fiery backlash

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jul 2024

Rhino poop draws all the deer (and boars and more) to the yard, study finds

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Jul 2024

120 rhinos moved from breeding program to South African reserves

Bobby Bascomb 20 Jul 2024
A Javan rhino spotted on camera trap in Ujung Kulon National Park.

Javan rhino poacher gets 12 years in record sentence for wildlife crime in Indonesia

Jeremy Hance 7 Jun 2024

Poachers claim to have killed one-third of all Javan rhinos, Indonesian police say

Jeremy Hance 31 May 2024

Max sentence request for Javan rhino poacher too low, experts say

Jeremy Hance 24 May 2024

A single gang of poachers may have killed 10% of Javan rhinos since 2019

Jeremy Hance 26 Apr 2024
Male Javan rhino calf named Luther with his mother in 2020.

New calf, same threats: Javan rhinos continue to reproduce despite perils

Jeremy Hance 19 Apr 2024
A Bengal tiger in neighboring India.

Nepal mulls policy shift to allow hotels back into tiger strongholds

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Mar 2024

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