The rhinos are threatened by poaching. Experts turn to unlikely heroes in effort to save rare rhino species: 'They love the ...

There are five species of rhinoceros in the world, and all of them are the target of poachers. One controversial practice to combat poaching - intentionally removing the animals' horns - has been in ...

It was 2011 when Hoang, a Vietnamese American, first learned about rhino horn poaching. That same year, the Javan rhino was deemed extinct in his home country, and rhinos elsewhere were being ...

it remains threatened by poaching for its horn and habitat loss. The Javan rhino population is now found in just one national park on the northern tip of the Indonesian island of Java, while a ...

A recent rhino horn trafficking bust in southern Sumatra may be linked to a poaching network in Java responsible for killing 26 Javan rhinos since 2019. The arrest of a 60-year-old suspect in the ...

A Javan rhino immerses itself in the Cigenter ... According to court testimony, Sunendi later placed the severed rhino horn in a plastic bag and hid it in his rafters at home.

accused of being part of a network that used homemade firearms to kill more than two dozen critically endangered Javan rhinos since 2018 to get their horns. Last year, a Malaysian man known as the ...

accused of being part of a network that used homemade firearms to kill more than two dozen critically endangered Javan rhinos since 2018 to get their horns. Last year, a Malaysian man known as the ...

Javan, and Sumatran. [Related: Does South Africa still need private rhino breeders to fight poaching?] The team believes that the horns shrunk due to intensive hunting. Shooting the rhinos with ...

When a group of startups set out to solve an age-old problem with new technology, they met unexpected resistance from conservationists who saw the idea as misguided at best — and dangerous at worst.