Black and white rhino populations in the Greater Kruger (Kruger National Park and surrounding reserves) in South Africa have plummeted from over 10,000 rhinos in 2010 to around 2,600 in 2023. Hundreds ...

A study published in the academic journal Science has found that cutting off the horns of rhinos in Africa leads to a ...

It is believed the horns have medicinal properties, and they fetch huge prices on the black market, particularly in Asia.

Poaching is a major threat to rhinoceroses around the world. In South Africa alone, more than 400 rhinos are killed every ...

An international study published in Science found that dehorning rhinos resulted in a drastic reduction in poaching of these ...

Across South Africa, removing the the object of poachers’ desire reduced rhino deaths by 78 percent, while it raised the ...

Dehorning rhinos — sedating the animals and cutting off their keratin horns with a chainsaw — is believed to be painless and ...

The dehorning of rhinos resulted in a nearly 80-percent reduction in the poaching of the animals during a seven-year study.

Poaching rates dropped by more than half in African reserves where veterinarians removed the animals’ horns, which are in ...

Rhino poaching has been reduced by almost 80% since ... of data across 11 reserves in the Greater Kruger region of South Africa between 2017 and 2023 by an international team, including Oxford ...