South Africa has announced plans to permit elephant and rhino hunts again, reviving trophy export quotas and opening public consultation on black rhino hunting permits. The move has sparked fresh debate over conservation, wildlife management, and ethical hunting.


South Africa to Permit Rhino, Elephant Hunts & Trophy Exports Again 

Tennessee's rare snowstorm has delighted southern white rhinos at Zoo Knoxville, with visitors amazed as the warmer-climate animals playfully romp through the powder despite their African origins.


Rhino Snow Joy: Tennessee Heat-Lovers Play in Freeze

Nepal’s crucial rhino census is in jeopardy as the suspension of USAID funding halts operations. Officials warn that delays could impact conservation efforts and long-term wildlife protection strategies. With funding uncertainty, the future of Nepal’s rhino population remains at risk.

Nepal’s rhino census at risk as USAID funding suspended

Nepal's Rhino census stalled as USAID funding runs dry

Kenya plans to use assisted reproduction techniques to save the northern white rhino — a species that has only two females remaining worldwide — from the brink of extinction.

Kenya Plans IVF To Save Northern White Rhinos

Biker chased and mauled to death by wild rhino in India's Assam - Video

South Africa's new medical tourism plan worries wildlife conservationists as it proposes allowing tourists to use rhino horn powder within the country's borders. It is part of a wider strategy to extract more economic value from the country’s rich wildlife and benefit black communities. Conservation experts are worried about such a plan as poaching and hunting has already made the African rhino an endangered species.

Gravitas: South Africa's new tourism plan has conservationists worried | Rhino horn for tourists?

South Africa considers selling Rhino horn to Asian tourists amid ecological concerns

Scientists have carried out the first successful in vitro fertilisation of a southern white rhino, a major breakthrough that could spell hope in the quest to save its cousin, the northern white rhino, whose last remaining members are both female.

Reproduction program with IVF technology is the last hope to save Rhinos

Since 2018, only 2 Northern white Rhinos are left in the world. A report read At least 2,707 rhinos were poached in Africa between 2018 and 2021, including critically endangered black rhino and near threatened white rhino.

WION Climate Tracker:  South African Rhino poaching drops; conservation efforts are paying off

A Wildlife ranger in Kenya looks after a baby Rhino. Salome Lemalasia is a community ranger in Sera Conservancy in Kenya. Watch this report.

A Wildlife ranger looks after a baby Rhino in Kenya

A new hope? Rare Sumatran rhino born in captivity in Indonesia

South Africa announces hunting permits for rhino, leopards

Rhino that lost horns to poachers returns to wild after 30 operations

In a first, Rhino horn NFT sold for $7,000 at auction in South Africa

Move over mammoths, a woolly rhino has been found well- preserved in Russian permafrost

Wildlife conservation efforts across the globe took a major hit in 2020. However despite the lockdown logistical and financial challenges, efforts to save northern white rhino continued throughout 2020. WION brings you a report.

Ramped up efforts to save Northern White Rhino in 2020

Russia: 39,000-year-old cave bear's remains found intact in Siberia

Looking after an orphaned baby rhino is hard work: you feed them bottled milk at all hours, comfort them through constant fear and bereavement and endure long nights of screaming for the absent mother they witnessed being shot dead by poachers.

South Africans volunteer to keep rhino orphanage going during lockdown

Experts fear China lifting ban on tiger, rhino parts may intensify poaching in India

Watch: China defends decision to ease rhino, tiger parts ban

Terrorism is financially flourishing on the poaching of endangered animals.

Terrorism, fashion and Illegal animal trafficking

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