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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

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
A rhino in Chitwan National Park.

Nepali experts question rhino relocation within park for population balance

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Mar 2024

Not just polar bears — climate change could push African rhinos to extinction

Anna Dulisse 14 Mar 2024
A black rhino in Loisaba Conservancy.

Black rhinos moved to Kenya’s Loisaba Conservancy as species recovers

Graeme Green 13 Feb 2024
The newly spotted female Javan rhino calf with its mother.

To help beleaguered Javan rhinos, study calls for tree felling, captive breeding

Jeremy Hance 27 Dec 2023

New calf brings new hope, and new concerns, for embattled Sumatran rhinos

Jeremy Hance 27 Nov 2023

Boost for Sumatran rhino IVF plan as eggs extracted from Bornean specimen

Basten Gokkon 8 Nov 2023
Confiscated skins of poached leopards in Chitwan, Nepal.

In biodiverse Nepal, wildlife crime fighters are underpowered but undeterred

Abhaya Raj Joshi 16 Oct 2023

Indonesia reports a new Javan rhino calf, but population doubts persist

Basten Gokkon 6 Oct 2023
The newborn rhino calf with her mother, Ratu, at the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary in Way Kambas, Indonesia.

Sumatran rhino birth is rare good news for species sliding to extinction

Jeremy Hance 3 Oct 2023

Conservationists urge caution as Nepal to gift more rhinos to China

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Sep 2023

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