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World's 1st embryo transfer could rescue northern white rhino from extinction

January 25, 2024

The world's first successful embryo transfer in white rhinos could save the critically endangered species of northern white rhinos from extinction, scientists announced in Berlin on Wednesday.

Tanzania’s Maasai credited with saving wildlife, but struggle themselves

June 29, 2019

The world’s last remaining population of black rhinoceroses is safe inside Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania thanks to close collaboration between forest rangers and Maasai tribespeople permitted to live in the sanctuary.

Court dismisses case against suspected wildlife trafficker

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2019

A SUSPECTED wildlife trafficking kingpin accused of smuggling US$1 million (Bt31 million) worth of rhino horns to Thailand has had the case against him dismissed, in a surprise court verdict slammed by conservationists.

Three sentenced to 4 years in jail for attempted rhino horn smuggling

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Samut Prakan Provincial Court on Tuesday handed down sentences of four years’ imprisonment to former Saraburi public prosecutor Pol Major Worapas Boonsri and two female civilians over their attempt to smuggle 21 rhino horns worth Bt49.4 million into the country through Suvarnabhumi Airport on March 10 last year.

Urgent : Anger as rhino Thai trade kingpin released from South African jail

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Johannesburg - Conservationists expressed shock Monday after a Thai kingpin of the illegal rhino horn trade was released from jail in South Africa after serving just six years of his 40-year sentence.

Mother Nature strikes back at rhino poachers

TUESDAY, JULY 10, 2018

Amid all the other good and bad headlines – the rescue of the Wild Boars from the cave and the deaths of so many people in Phuket – many may have missed a story of really good news from overseas.

Scientists create embryos, hope to save near-extinct rhino

THURSDAY, JULY 05, 2018

Months after the death of Sudan, the world's last male northern white rhino, scientists said Wednesday they have grown embryos containing DNA of his kind, hoping to save the subspecies from extinction.

Malaysia's last female Sumatran rhino Iman's health deteriorates

TUESDAY, JANUARY 09, 2018

KOTA KINABALU: Veterinarians are keeping a close watch on Iman, Malaysia's last female Sumatran rhino, as she continues to experience bleeding in her uterus.

South Africa's first online rhino horn auction set to open

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 2017

Johannesburg - Several hundred rhino horns will go under the hammer on Wednesday in South Africa's first online auction of the controversial product, despite opposition from conservation groups who contend the sale will encourage poachers.

Vietnamese man with rhino horn arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport

THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017

Officials at Suvarnabhumi Airport's wildlife checkpoint apprehended a Vietnamese passenger who was bound for Luang Prabang in northern Laos along with a rhino horn which had been cut into five pieces on Tuesday afternoon.

Elephant feels sting of Nepal’s conservation charge

MONDAY, APRIL 10, 2017

Dramatic scenes show dangers and rewards of efforts to save one-horned rhinos

Malaysia seizes big shipment of rhino horns at airport