By Kristine Sabillo A South African court has sentenced a Democratic Republic of Congo national named Francis Kipampa to 18 ...

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 ...

The recovered two horns of rhinoceros were taken into police ... Also known as the square-lipped rhinoceros, white rhinos have a square upper lip with almost no hair. They are endemic to the ...

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.

By 1900, the white rhino had been reduced from an estimated ... Largely, rhinos are poached for the demand for rhino horn in China, Vietnam and Laos. “We were doing really well,” says Ives.

The Delhi Police Crime Branch has arrested four persons for possessing and attempting to trade horns of the rare African white rhinoceros, valued at Rs 3 crore in the international market.

Sudan, a northern white rhino and the last male of his ... to eight worldwide because of poachers, who target rhinos for their horns. Workers at the conservancy watch the rhinos around the clock ...

His death is heartbreaking. The extinction of the northern white rhino is happening before our eyes. Rhinos are the targets of poaching because of an insatiable demand for their horns on the black ...

15, Kipampa pleaded guilty at the Middelburg Regional Court to all charges including conspiring to traffic rhino horns, money laundering ... Banner image of a white rhino at Kruger National ...

If you allow your fingernails to grow unchecked they will eventually resemble a rhino horn in no way at all. 5. Black and White rhinos are neither black nor white but rather the same dark grey colour.