The horns can reportedly be worth more in weight ... three species of rhino remain critically endangered, and while white ...

A safari guide captured video of a rhino sending a male lion scampering away with its tail figuratively between its legs.

Poaching for their horns is one of the biggest threats to white rhinos. Their horns are in demand in Asia, primarily in Vietnam and China, for use in traditional medicines and for artistic carvings.

White rhinos have two horns, the foremost more prominent than the other. Rhino horns grow as much as three inches a year, and have been known to grow up to five feet long. Females use their horns ...

Rhino horn has no proven ability to treat cancer and is no longer ... Black Rhino: 4,838 IUCN Red List Classification: Critically endangered White Rhino: Approx 20,000, up from fewer than 100 in 1900.

“These higher-level arrests and convictions are critical to disrupting the illegal trade chains used to move rhino horns into illicit markets in Asia”. Lemtongthai played a principal role in a ...

Poaching was fuelled by demand for rhino horn for use in traditional Chinese medicine, and for dagger handles in Yemen. The last few dozen wild northern white rhinos in the Democratic Republic of ...

In November, the International Union for Conservation of Nature declared Africa’s western black rhino officially extinct, and indicated that the northern white rhino is “possibly ... or illegal ...