Exporting rhino horn could generate funds for conservation – but also lead to more poaching.
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A new study shows the woolly rhino was not the inbred, genetically doomed species scientists had thought.
This documentary misses the opportunity to discuss why some local people feel threatened by rhino conservation.
A new report shows rhino numbers are now stable – but still only a fraction of what they once were.
Poaching may have killed more than a third of the world’s Javan rhino in five years.
Black rhino conservation focuses on areas with acacia trees – but they actually prefer to eat grass.
In South Africa, huge stockpiles of rhino horn are kept, even though there’s a global ban on trading it.
In the worst-case scenario currently being mapped, Earth’s temperature could increase by 4.3°C before 2100. Southern African rhinos will have no possibility of surviving this unless parks act now.
What would you do with 2,000 farmed rhinos? An African charity wants them to help their wild cousins.
Large pareiasaurs are among the earliest huge plant-eating tetrapods to appear in the history of the development of life on Earth.
Rhino horn consumers have a strong preference for wild rhino horn.
Five strategies must be applied to save the Javan rhino from the brink of extinction.
The Sumatran rhino’s isolated population and unique behaviour present challenges for conservation.
Helicoptering heavy herbivores across Africa is no laughing matter.
By unlocking the full potential of rhino ovaries, we hope to produce enough eggs to revive the northern white rhino in the wild.
The world mourns the loss of Malaysia’s last male Sumatran rhino. Can anything stop the slide of the species towards extinction?
Our findings suggest that the demand for rhino horn is unlikely to fall because people’s beliefs are firmly entrenched.
The loss of the Siberian unicorn shows just how vulnerable some animals can be to environmental change that can impact on their food supply.
Trading rhino horn has been legalised in a bid to undercut poachers and the black market.
Saving the rhino means tackling demand for its horn.
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