It's hard enough running a marathon's 26.2 miles, but going the whole way in a 22-pound rhino costume is another beast entirely. But that's just wh...

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...

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 ...

The disruption of entire eco-systems is harmful to the people who depend upon them for their economic survival. Poaching in developing countries may temporarily enrich the poachers, but posterity is inevitably impoverished.

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

Poaching has long contributed to the dwindling populations of endangered species worldwide. Now, conservationists in Nepal are combating the illeg...

Rhinos may not be the cutest animals in the world, but their plight undoubtedly deserves attention. Several species of rhinoceros, including the Sumat...

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) — Police officers tipped off by an anonymous informer forced their way into a Johannesburg apartment where they found 10 rhinocero...

By John R. Platt (Click here for original article.) Smile, you’re on endangered-species camera. The world’s last 35 Javan rhinoceroses (Rhi...

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

SYDNEY — Four rare white rhinoceroses have died in recent weeks at an Australian zoo after displaying mysterious neurological problems such as s...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African wildlife officials say a ranger is among four Kruger National Park workers arrested on rhinoceros poaching charges...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A minister in Zimbabwe's shaky coalition government says he is "astonished" by police claims that his vehicle was used by rh...

Quietly, without ritual or public fanfare, the Western Black Rhino this year was officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. None are believed left in the wild.

GENEVA -- The Western Black Rhino of Africa has been declared officially extinct, and two other subspecies of rhinoceros are close to meeting the same...

Airlifting a rhinoceros by its ankles might not sound like the most humane of acts, but in this situation, it's saving the critically endangered speci...

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A survey of endangered Javan rhinos in an Indonesian park has found far fewer females than males, a potential setback in efforts...