Gram for gram, rhino horn is more valuable on the black market in Asia than cocaine or gold. More than 400 rhinos were killed last year in South Africa, leaving conservationists, ...

Across South Africa, removing the the object of poachers’ desire reduced rhino deaths by 78 percent, while it raised the question: What is a rhino without its horns?

Rhino poaching is on the rise. The animal's horn is believed to have medicinal properties, and some say legalizing the trade could help squelch the black market. One controversial way to reduce ...

Controversial rhino horn sales eyed as solution to poaching crisis 13:18. We think of the rhinoceros lumbering through the bush on its tank-like body; a magnificent, if cumbersome, creature of the ...

A 4-year-old male white rhino named Vince, seen in a photo released by the Thoiry zoo and wildlife park, was killed overnight Monday by poachers who sawed off his horn.

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Rhino horns are so valuable because they are believed to be an aphrodisiac in traditional Chinese medicine. It's a major reason why anti-poaching methods have struggled to fight against the ...

Poachers break into French zoo and kill rhino to steal tusk 02:21. Palmir, a 10-year-old male rhino, was the first to have his horn cut off on Monday.

Teo Boon Ching, a Malaysian wildlife trafficker known as the “Godfather,” was sentenced to 18 months in prison for a scheme to hawk at least $2.1 million in poached rhinoceros horns to several ...

A kilogram of rhino horn at its peak went for $65,000. An estimated 12,713 rhinos have been poached in Africa since 2006, the majority in South Africa, according to conservation charity Save the ...