rhino horns, Tag

Could legal rhino horn sales actually save the endangered species? The world's biggest rhino breeder, John Hume, seems to think so. He's offering rhino horn in an online auction slated to go live this week. Hume owns over...

Nearly half of South Africa’s rhinos were killed by poachers last year, and a private army is working hard to protect the remaining animals. Rhinos are hunted almost exclusively for their horns, so John Hume opened a rhino...

There are now just three northern white rhinos on Earth, after the passing of 41-year-old Nola at the San Diego Zoo this weekend. The elderly female rhino was euthanized following a long battle with arthritis and, more recently,...

Shopkeepers in San Francisco’s Chinatown are still selling black rhino horns, despite recent crackdowns by federal agents. The horns, wanted by practitioners of traditional medicine for their purported medicinal properties,...

Shopkeepers in San Francisco’s Chinatown are still selling black rhino horns, despite recent crackdowns by federal agents. The horns, wanted by practitioners of traditional medicine for their purported medicinal properties,...

In the last five years, poachers in Mozambique have killed almost half of the elephants in the country for the ivory. The government in Mozambique sponsored a study that shows a dramatic 48 percent decrease in the number...

When we think of the illegal ivory trade, most people envision the large smuggling busts that happen in Africa or Asia. It may surprise you to learn that the port of Newark in New Jersey is a hub for the illegal wildlife...

The year hasn't even reached a close and already poachers have killed more rhinos is South Africa - home to 80 percent of the world's rhino population - than in all of last year...