Crackdown on poachers who kill endangered rhinos 02:21. A Malaysian man who sold a dozen black rhino and white rhino horns to a confidential source was sentenced to a year and a half in a U.S ...

Rhino horn is made up of calcium, melanin, and keratin, and regrows at a rate of up to seven centimeters per year. Every two years, the animal has enough horn to necessitate removal.

Rhino poaching has subsided from its peak in 2015, when 1,349 animals were killed out of a total African white and black rhino population of around 22,100.

Africa's white rhino population rebounds for 1st time in a decade, new figures show There were 23,290 total rhinos at the end of 2022, a 5.2% increase from 2021. By Emma Ogao ...

The rhino population in Zimbabwe has surpassed more than 1,000 animals for the first time in more than 30 years, ... This includes 614 black and 415 white rhinos, ...

Africa Successful embryo transfer sparks hope for northern white rhino's survival Approximately 20,000 southern white rhinos remain in Africa, showing signs of population recovery ...

That subspecies as well as another species, the black rhino, ... The last male white rhino, Sudan, was 45 when he was euthanized in 2018 due to age-related complications.

African white rhino populations have shown an increase for the first time in over a decade despite continued poaching, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources ...

Zoo Atlanta just welcomed the cutest Christmas miracle: a baby rhino. The southern white rhinoceros – the first to be born at that zoo – arrived on December 24, the park said.

Kenya Wildlife Service Director General Erastus Kanga says the park can ecologically accommodate about 90 to 100 rhinos.