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Ninety elephants have been poached in Botswana in what is being considered one of Africa's grimmest mass poaching sprees. The majority of the creatures poached for their valuable ivory were large bull elephants who carry...

Only two northern white rhinos remain on Earth — two females, Najin and Fatu. But all isn't lost for the subspecies quite yet — scientists have hatched a scheme to save the rhinos and recently published their findings...

Sudan is a 45-year-old northern white rhinoceros - and the last male of his kind. He's suffering from poor health, and if he dies before he is able to mate it will likely signal the effective extinction of the northern white...

Sudan, a 45-year-old northern white rhinoceros and the last male of his kind, is suffering from poor health. If Sudan dies before he is able to mate, it will likely signal the effective extinction of the northern white rhino,...

Could legal rhino horn sales actually save the endangered species? The world's biggest rhino breeder, John Hume, seems to think so. He's offering rhino horn in an online auction slated to go live this week. Hume owns over...

He may not make the coziest of bedfellows, but if a northern white rhino pops up on your Tinder screen, it might behoove you to swipe right. Dubbed by wildlife experts as the "world's most eligible bachelor," 43-year-old...

A zoo in the Czech Republic announced Tuesday that it plans to preemptively remove the horns from its herd of rare rhinos. The decision comes a week after poachers broke into a French zoo, shot dead an endangered white rhino...

A new ad campaign features Sir Richard Branson and a number of Chinese celebrities chewing their nails for a good cause. The goal of the videos is simple: instead of going out and purchasing endangered rhino horn, viewers...

Although loved and admired around the world, the rhinoceros is an animal in peril. One of the last and largest remaining megafauna, the rhino is a relic of a time when magnificent mammals ruled the world. Unfortunately, its...

The Texas man who paid $350,000 to kill a black rhinoceros has been successful. Corey Knowlton purchased the permit to kill the endangered animal in an auction in January of 2014, igniting a firestorm of controversy. The...

A 44-year-old Northern White Rhino died on Sunday at the San Diego Zoo safari park. His death means there are only five of the species left in the world. Known as Angalifu, the rhino came to the park from Sudan in 1990....

It’s no secret that rhinos are being poached in numbers that are off the charts, and despite efforts to protect the animals, 2014 is on track to be the worst year in nearly a decade for rhino deaths...

19-year-old Kendall Jones, a cheerleader from Texas, has been hunting big game in Africa with her father for 10 years. Following in the footsteps of the reviled Melissa Bachman, she claims that her efforts to bag the Big...

A report by the Environmental Investigation Agency has revealed a link between the terrorist group responsible for the recent attack at Westgate mall in Nairobi and Africa's illegal ivory trade...

Image of US army drone, Shutterstock The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has announced plans to deploy aerial drones to get control of the escalating illegal wildlife trade, which is quickly spinning out of control...