South African scientists on Tuesday injected radioactive material into live rhino horns to make them easier to detect at border posts in a pioneering project aimed at curbing poaching. The country ...

The Rhisotope Project involves inserting a radioactive source into the horns of rhinoceroses to deter poaching. Since radioactive rhino horns would be less appealing to consumers, it makes them ...

Scientists in South Africa inserted radioisotopes into the horns of live Rhinos. LONDON -- Scientists in South Africa on Tuesday inserted radioisotopes into the horns of live rhinoceroses in a ...

South African scientists on Tuesday injected radioactive material into live rhino horns to make them easier to detect at border posts in a pioneering project aimed at curbing poaching. The country ...

Indonesia’s highest court has overturned the acquittal of an accused translator who facilitated transactions in the ...

as poaching fed by huge demand for rhino horns remains a top threat, conservationists said in a new report. The number of white rhinos increased from 15,942 in 2022 to 17,464 in 2023, but the ...

Low population density makes poaching harder because rhinos are simply more difficult to track down, the researchers found. But the demand for rhino horns on the illegal wildlife market remains ...

At a meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) last year, the international community concluded that the increase in rhino poaching has been caused largely by ...

The poaching of up to 26 Javan rhinos in Indonesia ... According to court testimony, Sunendi later placed the severed rhino horn in a plastic bag and hid it in his rafters at home.

Twenty rhinos at The Rhino Orphanage in Mokopane, Limpopo District, South Africa, had the radioscopes inserted into their horns, in what is the first the first such project of its kind.