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...
Assam: Verification underway of 2,500 rhino horns seized from poachersPrincipal Chief Conservator of Forest (Wildlife), Amit Sahai disclosed that verification of rhino horns stored in Kamrup, Barpeta and Morig...
Extinction watch: Rhinoceros, hunted for its hornAccording to International Union for Conservation of Nature, Black rhinos, Sumatran rhinos and Javan rhinos are “critically endangered”. Th...
Rhino horn verification committee submits reportThe committee members were nominated from diverse fields of expertise to examine the Horns physically as well as histologically with the he...
Green forum slams rhino horn trimming proposalThe state government's proposal to trim rhino horns to curb poaching has given rise to severe criticism and protest from various quarters.
- Assam may ‘trim’ rhino horns to curb poaching
The Assam government has sought opinion from the people on trimming rhino horns to save them from poachers.
Environmentalists oppose Assam govt's move to dehorn rhinoThe Assam government's move to explore trimming of horns to save rhinos from poaching was opposed by an environmental activist body.
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...
- Rhino horn recovered, two nabbed in Assam
Two persons were arrested and a rhino horn and its small pieces worth over Rs 45 lakh in the international market were recovered from their...
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...
- Poachers kills another rhino in Kaziranga, chop off horn
There has been no let up in rhino poaching in Assam yet.On Saturday, poachers killed another rhino at Kaziranga National Park and chopped o...
- Another rhino killed in Kaziranga
Poachers killed another rhino at Kaziranga National Park in the presence of forest guards on Saturday.The incident took place in the park's...
5 poachers arrested, rhino horn seizedFive poachers were arrested when they were trying to sell a rhino horn at Biswanath area of Sonitpur district in Assam today.
- South African demand for legal trade in rhino horns leaves India jittery
The 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...
- 19 rhinos killed in Kaziranga in 13 months
One more rhino has been shot by poachers in Kaziranga National Park of Assam, taking the toll of the endangered animal killed in the park i...