By John R. Platt, Scientific American: (click here for original article) For the first time in more than 30 years an American hunter has been allo...

VIENNA, April 23 (Reuters) - Growing Asian demand for ivory and rhino horn as gifts and hangover cures - not for traditional medicine - is fuelling ...

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has released upsetting images of a 15-day-old rhino who was orphaned after its mother was killed by poachers earlier thi...

KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa, April 11 (Reuters) - Five days after the rhino was gunned down, its carcass had been picked apart by scavengers ...

India said Monday it is deploying drones over a reserve to safeguard the rare one-horned rhino from poachers, the first time the country has employed ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A high-value target survives two attempts on her life. After recovering from multiple gunshot wounds, she is secretly moved to a...

Calling all 196 countries on Earth -- it's time to band together, stop this senseless slaughter and impose stiff 100-year jail terms for anyone involved in trafficking ivory, rhino horns or big cat parts.

KAZIRANGA, India (AP) — Out of the early morning mists and tall grass of northeast India emerges a massive creature with a dinosaur-like face, havin...

BANGKOK — Thai authorities have seized more than $500,000 worth of rhino horn from passenger's luggage at a Bangkok airport. Thai Customs offic...

By Jon Herskovitz and Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Africa's biggest animals were poached in near record numbers in 20...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Elephant and Rhino poaching surged to record levels in 2011 and an increase in illegal tiger hunting makes the species' extinc...

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Officials at a wildlife park in Kenya say they found four dead rhinoceros shot by poachers in a two-day span. The Lewa Wildlife Con...

VAALKOP DAM NATURE RESERVE, South Africa (AP) — By the time ranchers found the rhinoceros calf wandering alone in this idyllic setting of scrub brus...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's department of environmental affairs says 455 of the country's endangered rhinoceros have been illegally hunted an...

The holocaust of the African rhinoceros is accelerating, with the very real possibility that both the continent's species -- white and black rhinos -- could be extinct outside zoos in a matter of years.

Why does all this happen, at a rate that threatens the species with extinction -- once again? Because the rhinoceros' horn, despite containing nothing more interesting than plain keratin, similar to our finger nails, is worth more than gold, or even cocaine.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa says it is tightening hunting rules to try to combat illegal rhinoceros horn trading. An environment...

Experts in rhino conservation met last week in Nairobi in response to a rhino poaching epidemic gripping South Africa and Zimbabwe, which reached a record high in 2011.