Rhinoceroses
Popularly called rhinos, rhinoceroses are heavily-built, thick-skinned herbivores with one or two horns on their snout and three toes on their feet. The family Rhinocerotidae includes f...
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Authorities in India's remote northeastern Assam state launched a crackdown on rhinoceros poachers on Monday, rushing in armed paramilitary soldiers to a sprawling game reserve, officials said.The ...
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Kathmandu (dpa) - A one-horned male rhinoceros was found killed
with its horn removed Sunday in Chitwan National Park in southern
Nepal, bringing to three the number of rhin...
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Authorities are searching for poachers who have killed six rare one-horned rhinoceros in the past four months in a protected game reserve in India's northeastern Assam state, the state's chief ward...
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This egg hunt shortly before Easter was not for the faint-hearted. A team at Beekse Bergen safari park in the southern Netherlands on Thursday successfully harvested eggs from Ans, a 4,190-pound so...
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The hunting of lions and other big cats bred in captivity purely to die at the barrel of a gun will be outlawed under legislation that comes into force next year, the government said Wednesday.The ...
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Kathmandu (dpa) - Nepalese wildlife experts and activists painted
a bleak picture for the endangered one-horned Asian rhinoceros in the
country's protected reserves, a Nepal...
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Kathmandu (dpa) - Days after wildlife experts warned one-horned
Asian rhinoceros in Nepal faced an uncertain future, officials said
the population of rhinos in west Nepal ha...
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Harare (dpa) - Authorities in Zimbabwe, where the rhinoceros
population is under threat from poachers, have launched a massive
dehorning exercise, reports said Thursday.
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Kathmandu (dpa) - A recent census of the endangered one-horned
rhinoceros in western Nepal has confirmed that the animal is slowly
declining in the region.
Wi...
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Harare (dpa) - A Zambian rhino poacher who was caught after a
shoot-out with Zimbabwean game rangers has been sentenced to 18 years
in jail for attempted murder and other of...
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Rhinoceroses
Crackdown on India rhino poaching
