The black market trade in rhino horns is driving the species to near extinction. Now, scientists at a rhino orphanage in the ...

Conservation scientists in South Africa are injecting rhino horns with radioactive isotopes. The doses are too weak to harm ...

A South African university has launched an anti-poaching campaign to inject the horns of rhinos with radioactive isotopes, ...

The process is safe and harmless to the animals, but will allow authorities to detect smuggled horns as they're transported ...

Three Chinese men have been arrested for allegedly running a shop in Nha Trang where they sold rhino horns, elephant tusks, ...

Scientists have developed a safe way to embed radioactive markers in rhino horns, making them detectable and help combat ...

South Africa’s New Weapon Against Poachers | Vantage with Palki Sharma South Africa is taking a bold step to stop rhino ...

The number of critically endangered black rhinos has increased slightly, but there is bad news for other rhino species, ...

After six years of research and a successful trial period, a South African program that hopes to curb rhino poaching by ...

Rhinos have long been a symbol of Africa’s wild beauty. But now, science is stepping in to protect them in a new way. A team ...

A rhinoceros with a radioactive pellet inserted into its horn at a rhino orphanage in Mokopane, Limpopo district, South Africa, on Tuesday, June 25, 2024. / Credit: Cebisile Mbonani/Bloomberg via ...

Rhino horns are among the most valuable products in the wildlife black market. The appendages have been sold for as high as $400,000 per kilogram — or about $11,000 an ounce — outpacing the ...