All-female squad protecting rhinos and elephants from poachers 01:16. Poachers in South Africa killed more than 100 rhinos in the first three months of this year, most of them inside national ...

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The African savannah once echoed with the mighty trumpets of thousands of elephants, but today, the silence is deafening in many regions. Imagine hearing that silence, knowing it is the result of ...

Ivory-seeking poachers have killed 100,000 African elephants in just three years, according to a new study that provides the first reliable continent-wide estimates of illegal kills. During 2011 ...

South African Environment Minister Dion George announced on Monday, May 5, that poachers killed over 100 rhinos in South Africa between Jan. 1 and March 31.

Rhino poachers have turned their attention to South Africa’s oldest state-run nature reserve where they killed 307 of the endangered animals last year. The shift to the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park in ...

When poachers kill rhinos for their horns, calves that are left behind are almost certain to perish. But for one newly orphaned calf, there’s hope for recovery and, eventually, a return to the wild.

Across South Africa, removing the the object of poachers’ desire reduced rhino deaths by 78 percent, while it raised the question: What is a rhino without its horns?

But in a 3,400-kilometer (2,100-mile) journey that involved crates, cranes, trucks, and a Boeing 747, 70 captive bred ...

Though the numbers of African rhinos poached annually has dropped steadily since a peak of over 1,300 in 2015, almost 600 kills were still recorded last year, according to Save the Rhino.

The Unwitting Environmentalists in the Fight Against Poachers: Vultures The birds, outfitted with tracking devices, are helping researchers and park rangers combat poaching in Uganda ...