By making rhino horns detectable and traceable, the Rhisotope Project aims to create a powerful deterrent for traffickers.

The anti-poaching campaign injects rhino horns with radioactive isotopes that are harmless for the animals but which can be ...

A South African university's Rhisotope Project aims to combat rhino poaching by injecting horns with harmless radioactive ...

A South African university has initiated an anti-poaching campaign using radioactive isotopes to protect rhinos. These harmless isotopes make rhino horns detectable at borders, aiding in the ...

A South African university has initiated the Rhisotope Project, injecting radioactive isotopes into rhino horns to combat poaching. This innovative approach, deemed safe and detectable by customs, ...

Poaching poses the biggest threat to the rhino population in South Africa where at least one rhino is killed for their horns every day. Rhino horns - made primarily of keratin, a protein also ...

Rhino poachers have turned their attention to South Africa’s oldest state-run nature reserve where they killed 307 of the endangered animals last year. The shift to the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park in ...

The number of rhinos killed illegally in South Africa declined to the lowest since 2020 last year after the province with the greatest concentration of the animals reported fewer poaching incidents.

South African authorities have focused in recent years on criminal syndicates they believe are behind much of the country's rhino poaching. The environment ministry hailed a conviction last year ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) Â South Africa's anti-COVID-19 lockdown is credited with helping to achieve a dramatic drop in rhino killings, but as the country opens up experts warn of a possible ...

African rhino populations are increasing despite poaching and habitat loss, new figures from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) show. The new figures, released Thursday ...

While South Africa has seen a modest decrease in rhino poaching incidents across Kruger in recent years, Eikelboom and his co-author, Herbert Prins, another ecologist at Wageningen University ...