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A dehorned white rhino with her calf. Image courtesy of Tim Kuiper.

Protecting rhinos more urgent than ever this World Rhino Day

Mongabay.com 22 Sep 2025
Sumatran rhino at the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

The rhinoceros, under siege but not lost

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Sep 2025
A Sumatran rhino with a four-day-old calf. This critically endangered species is the smallest of all rhinos, with an estimated 34-47 individuals surviving in the wild.

Latest rhino assessment finds two species recovering, but three continue to decline

Spoorthy Raman 3 Sep 2025

Rhino breeder John Hume accused of horn trafficking, arrested in South Africa

Spoorthy Raman 21 Aug 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
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

120 rhinos moved from breeding program to South African reserves

Bobby Bascomb 20 Jul 2024

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

Anna Dulisse 14 Mar 2024
Orphanage manager Claudia Andrione with older rhino orphans at the orphanage.

African Parks to rewild 2,000 rhinos from controversial breeding program

Jim Tan 11 Sep 2023
A rhino in the orphanage at the Platinum Rhino project site.

World’s largest private rhino herd doesn’t have a buyer — or much of a future

Jim Tan 11 Aug 2023
A black rhino recently dehorned.

Poaching surges in the birthplace of white rhino conservation

Jim Tan 14 Oct 2022
Thuza and Kusasa the white rhinos.

White rhino conservation project attempts paradigm shift by including local community

Ryan Truscott 19 Jul 2022
Team guiding a sedated rhino into a crate for translocation. Image by Casey Pratt / Love Africa Marketing.

Bull run: South Africa marks latest rhino relocation to boost populations

Charles Mpaka 9 May 2022

Translocation brings white rhinos to Rwanda, a new land for an old species

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Dec 2021
Najin the Rhino

One of world’s last two northern white rhinos withdrawn from breeding program

Carolyn Cowan 1 Nov 2021

Creation of three new northern white rhinos embryos may indicate hope for other rhino species

Ashley Stumvoll 16 Sep 2021
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Low genetic diversity is part of rhinos’ long-term history, study says

Carolyn Cowan 31 Aug 2021

South African dehorning initiative aims for ‘zero poached’ white rhinos

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Apr 2021

On World Rhino Day, looking back on an eventful year

Mongabay.com 22 Sep 2019

Is the rhino horn trade a cartel? Economic analysis suggests it works like one

Abhaya Raj Joshi 12 Aug 2019

New film details wrenching impact of illegal rhino horn trade on families

John Cannon 27 Jun 2019

Better than sex? For hard-to-breed rhinos, technology strives for a solution

Jim Tan 28 Mar 2019

And then there were 12: Why don’t we hear about extinction until it’s too late? (commentary)

Sam Turvey 6 Jul 2018

Lab-grown embryos raise hope of saving near-extinct rhino

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Jul 2018

Black rhinos return to Zakouma National Park in Chad

Mongabay.com 7 May 2018

Rhino DNA database helps officials nab poachers and traffickers

Mongabay.com 8 Jan 2018

Traffickers find new ways to smuggle rhino horn out of Africa

Isabel Esterman 19 Sep 2017

Rhino horn on the auction block in South Africa

John Cannon 22 Aug 2017

When it comes to rhino conservation, Asia and Africa can learn a lot from each other

Alex Dudley 21 Jun 2017

New York detective work saves rhinos in South Africa (commentary)

Axel Hunnicutt 2 Jun 2017

South Africa makes it legal to sell rhino horns

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Apr 2017

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