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IVF to save a rhino: Mumbai filmmaker’s docu-series wins at Cannes

September 30, 2025 5:28 am

Only two females of the northern white rhino species had survived after decades of poaching, and both couldn’t conceive or carry their pregnancy to term

The procedure, according to the researchers, has proven to show no harm to the rhinos themselves, while making the horn “useless” and “poisonous” to humans.

How a new project plans to curb rhino poaching through radioactive isotope injections

August 03, 2025 7:50 pm

South Africa, home to the world’s largest rhino population, had lost over 10,000 rhinos to poaching over the last decade. Here is how the Rhisotope Project aims to deploy a different method for their conservation.

2 rhino horns worth 3 crores seized by Delhi Police, 4 held

January 11, 2025 5:07 pm

The police received a tip-off about the illegal trade, following which a raid was conducted in Lajpat Nagar on January 9, police added.

Rhino horns for terror: How poaching funds insurgency in Northeast India

December 22, 2024 10:33 pm

International rhino horn trade was banned in 1977 by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

Rhino carcass found in Jan 2022, but it was killed in 2021: Officials defend Assam’s poaching-free year

January 05, 2023 10:17 am

On January 2 this year, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced that “not a single rhino” was poached in the state in 2022 following which Prime Minister Narendra Modi also congratulated him.

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Researchers work on 'radioactive rhino horns' to curb illegal hunting

May 23, 2021 3:27 pm

If the method is proven to work, it could also be used to curb illegal trade in elephant ivory.

South African rhino poaching dip accelerates in lockdown

February 02, 2021 1:34 pm

Poaching figures dropped by a third in 2020, with South Africa's environmental ministry citing the coronavirus lockdown as a significant reason for this. The country is home to 80% of the world's rhinoceroses.

Explained — Fake ‘horns’ in the lab: will they save rhinos?

November 09, 2019 1:22 am

Study describes method to create fakes using horse hairs, rhino experts not convinced it can stop poaching

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Assam: One more Kaziranga Rhino poached, sixth case in 2018

December 16, 2018 10:39 am

The incident of an adult male rhino found dead with its horn removed in Kaziranga National Park draws wildlife activists to highlight lack of facilities for forest guards