RHINO POACHING INCREASES

Rhino diplomacy

Poachers threaten rhinos

Caught between floods and poachers, one-horned rhinos live on the edge

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SOUTH AFRICA

Trouble in India’s rhino paradise

Poachers killed 18 rhinos in Kaziranga National Park in 2016 — most recently on December 22 — but experts still see many reasons for hope

Why southern Africa's peace parks are sliding into war parks

There are very violent confrontations in southern Africa's peace parks. This is partly due to a violent history dating back to the apartheid …

Gory conservation

Assam debates dehorning rhinos without proper studies

According to report

Flyovers for Kaziranga rhinos

Assam proposes elevated roads to reduce accidents of animals on National Highway 37

Problem of plenty

Pobitora wildlife sanctuary in Assam has far more rhinos than it can sustain

UGANDA

Assam govt casual towards rhino conservation

Nepal's rhinos pay a price for political instability

Bat Tracks

On the tracks of two Indian bat species: one found in abundance, the other most elusive

Rhinos in trouble

Poaching and encroachments threaten one-horned rhionos at Orang National Park

Two more rhinos poached in Kaziranga

South Africa to combat poaching by shifting Kruger rhinos

South Africa plans to move up to 500 rhinos from Kruger National park to counter a wave of poaching of the animals for their horns, highly prized …

Poaching led to record rhino deaths in Kaziranga

Curse of the horn

Soaring prices of rhino horns have led to a new spurt of poaching in the Kaziranga National Park, Assam. Once heralded as a conservation success …

Controversial claims

five to go

Assam floods: 85% of Kaziranga submerged, 9 one-horned rhinos dead

The national park is home to more than 2,000 one-horned rhinos, the largest population of this species in the world

Should ivory trade be legalised?

International ban on ivory trade has neither reduced elephant poaching nor the volume of the illegal trade. Is it time the trade is legalised? …

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