China's forays into Africa's forests & illegal trade could lead to environmental disasterEarthsight, a London-based environmental NGO, earlier estimated that the annual value of worldwide rosewood smuggling exceeded a billion do...
11 Jun, 2022, 02.25 PM IST
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.
16 Nov, 2021, 03.43 PM IST
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...
20 Feb, 2020, 11.16 PM IST
Rhinos come to bond market, other species may followYield will depend on population growth rate of the animals
19 Jul, 2019, 10.07 AM IST
Talking about Sudan - the world's last male northern white rhinoHe is the most famous individual animal in the world now with high profile visitors including Leonardo DiCaprio and Elizabeth Hurley.
03 Mar, 2018, 11.14 PM IST
India tour of South Africa: Men in Blue are preparing for the bounceIndia know this is the best chance they have to win in South Africa. They need to enjoy that journey, not feel pressured by it.
01 Jan, 2018, 09.00 AM IST
New home in New Year: South African drug to tranquillise Dudhwa rhinosThe New Year promises to be a happy one for the rhinoceros at Dudhwa.Some of them might get to shift to a new home, thanks to South Africa.
30 Dec, 2017, 10.54 AM IST
SA-based co Dimension Data wants to bring connected conservation project to IndiaUnder the connected conservation project, DD has partnered with Cisco to first secure a 50,000-acre game reserve in South Africa to save wh...
01 May, 2017, 10.42 AM IST
In natural habitat: Check out some tigers, rhinos and orangutans in South Africa's Kruger National ParkTurn your kids into animal lovers as they spot the Big five: Elephant, lion, rhino, leopard and buffalo, the big cats in South Africa.
09 Apr, 2015, 05.54 AM IST
Shrien Dewani in top 100 personalities of the year in South AfricaShrien Dewani, acquitted on charges of orchestrating the murder of his wife Anni, is among the eight Indian-origin people in the annual lis...
23 Dec, 2014, 10.39 AM IST
- Rhinos may be extinct by 2020: Experts
The poaching of black and white rhinoceros has soared in last six years. While as 13 rhinos were slaughtered in 2007, that number spiked to...
14 Apr, 2014, 01.52 PM IST
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...
17 Feb, 2014, 08.09 AM IST
- Obama in $10 million effort to cut wildlife trafficking
He 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...
01 Jul, 2013, 09.07 PM IST
- 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...
16 May, 2012, 01.47 AM IST
- No more lonely nights for one-horned male rhino at Sipahejala
The one-horned male rhino ambling its way through the greens of Sipahejala Zoo in Tripura will at last get a female company, courtesy an an...
29 Jun, 2010, 10.21 AM IST
- Namibia auctions wildlife to raise funds for conservation
A South African farmer paid 4 million rands (US$527,000) for eight Namibian black rhinos on Friday, as Namibia auctioned five species of ra...
26 Jul, 2008, 03.53 AM IST
- ITL to offload 5per cent more to investor
International Tractors (ITL), owners of the Sonalika brand, is in talks to offload another 5% as part of its fifth tranche of private place...
23 Jul, 2007, 12.38 AM IST