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Scientists just trained AI to spot hidden seahorses, shark fins, and sea cucumbers in airport X-ray scans, and the 86% to 96% detection rates could give customs officers a new way to catch marine wildlife smugglersWildlife traffickers hide marine species in luggage. Australian scientists created an AI system using 3D X-ray scans to find seahorses, sha...- African Parks' bold move to save rhinos: Rewilding the world's largest rhino farmAfrican Parks, a conservation charity, has acquired the largest private collection of rhinos in the world, the Platinum Rhino farm, with pl...
- Poaching, horn trade declining but rhinos still threatened
- Cape Town businessman pays $6,850 for first rhino horn NFTThe money raised from auctioning the digital replica of a rhino horn will protect real rhinos.
- Assam destroys over 2,400 rhino horns to bust medicinal mythOn World Rhino Day on Wednesday, Assam set on fire a large stockpile of over 2,400 rhino horns, which were extracted from naturally or acci...
- Assam consigns rhino horn hoard to flames to highlight they have no medicinal valueIndian laws as well as international conventions forbids sale of body parts, whether of humans and animals, both by individuals and governm...
- China's move to lift ban from rhino, tiger parts rings alarm bells in West Bengal, AssamThough officially, the trade is to remain controlled and the products must come from animals in captivity, “We are deeply concerned,” said ...
- Centre promises tough action to check rhino killingTerming the recently killing of rhinos in Kaziranga national park as a "serious" issue, the Centre on Friday said that it will take stringe...
- Rhino killed in Kaziranga, toll rises to 14 this yearPoachers managed to kill another rhino at Kaziranga, a world heritage site about 250 km from here, on Sunday, barely a week after the natio...
- Poachers kill another rhino in KazirangaPoachers managed to kill a rhino at Assam’s Kaziranga, a world heritage site about 250km from here, on Sunday barely a week after the natio...
- RTIs punch holes in Prakash Javadekar's claims on growing rhino countGovernment officials point to the rise in the number of rhinoceros in Kaziranga in Assam to stress that the situation is not so dire.
- Tarun Gogoi to contest 2016 assembly polls from Titabar in AssamIt was earlier speculated that this may Gogoi’s last term in office, even Gogoi has earlier hinted that he may hang boots in 2016 assembly ...
- Rhinos may be extinct by 2020: ExpertsThe poaching of black and white rhinoceros has soared in last six years. While as 13 rhinos were slaughtered in 2007, that number spiked to...
- Rhinos being killed with alarming frequency in AssamThe killing of seven rhinos in the state within a span of a month-and-a-half has proved once again that poachers can still strike the one-h...
- Obama in $10 million effort to cut wildlife traffickingHe said that rhinoceros horn was worth around $30,000 per pound on the black market -- making it literally worth more than its weight in go...
- Habitat havocLast week four elephants died on rail tracks of Jalpaiguri.
- Sharphooters hired to kill rhinosYetoho Zimo (26) is a sharpshooter who seldom misses his target. A resident of Dimapur, he has earned the trust of poachers over the years ...
- How a myth is killing the rhinoWidely-entrenched beliefs about the miraculous properties of the rhino horn are leading to the animal’s massacre even though studies show t...
- South African demand for legal trade in rhino horns leaves India jitteryThe surge of poaching of rhinoceros in South Africa could lead to threats to the one-horned Indian rhino in faraway Assam and West Bengal i...
- Rhinos falling prey to greedAs the value of rhinoceros horn spirals in the clandestine international market, so has the price on the rhino’s head. This year alone, poa...
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