The black market trade in rhino horns is driving the species to near extinction. Now, scientists at a rhino orphanage in the ...

Conservation scientists in South Africa are injecting rhino horns with radioactive isotopes. The doses are too weak to harm ...

A South African university has launched an anti-poaching campaign to inject the horns of rhinos with radioactive isotopes, ...

Before starting the project, the scientists ensured that these radioactive drugs were absolutely harmless to the animals.

Scientists have developed a safe way to embed radioactive markers in rhino horns, making them detectable and help combat ...

Three Chinese men have been arrested for allegedly running a shop in Nha Trang where they sold rhino horns, elephant tusks, ...

The number of critically endangered black rhinos has increased slightly, but there is bad news for other rhino species, ...

The Rhisotope Project is embedding radioactive isotopes in the horns of rhinos in an effort to prevent poaching. Rhinos ...

While conservation efforts have seen rhino populations in South Africa and other parts of their range begin to bounce back ...

In 2015 alone, 1,349 rhinos were poached in Africa. In the years since, those numbers have decreased, but at least one rhinoceros is still killed every day. To tackle this problem, a group of ...

Rhinos have long been a symbol of Africa’s wild beauty. But now, science is stepping in to protect them in a new way. A team ...

We speak with James Larkin, the head of a project in South Africa that's experimenting with using radiation to prevent rhino poaching. They sedate the animals and inject radiation into their horns.