South African scientists on Tuesday injected radioactive material into live rhino horns to make them easier to detect at ...
Clipboards were rapidly filled up with data specific to our rhino. Within minutes, the horns (one large and one small) were removed with a chainsaw and signed for by an armed guard for safekeeping ...
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Meanwhile, in an unrelated incident, three suspects aged between 25 and 39 were arrested for the unlawful possession of rhino horns in Piet Retief, Mpumalanga, on Wednesday morning. A whistle ...
We’ll soon find out. Will anyone want to buy 2,000 rhinos? We’ll soon find out. How some rhino protectors have become a major threat to the species How some rhino protectors have become a ...
You can learn what they use their horns for, how they keep clean and why they love mud! The name 'rhino' is actually short for 'rhinoceros'. The word 'rhinoceros' comes from the Greek words rhino ...
At the same time, specially made ear buds are placed in the rhino’s ears and its eyes are covered to prevent it hurting itself by “witnessing” its horn being removed, or charging at the vet ...
The idea is to "bio-fabricate" rhino horns out of keratin - the same material that fingernails and hair are made of - using 3D printing, Pembient's CEO and co-founderMatthew Markus told Business ...
The winning image from the fifty-third Wildlife Photographer of the Year captures the aftermath of an act of brutality: a dead black rhino, killed for its commercially valuable horn. Museum mammal ...
Two Vietnamese men convicted of attempting to smuggle rhino horns out of South Africa were sentenced last week to the longest prison terms possible under the country’s national wildlife law. The men ...
Criminal networks smuggling rhino horn out of Africa are turning it into jewellery to evade its detection in airports, an investigation has found. Wildlife trade monitoring network Traffic ...