The number of rhino that were poached for their horns dropped to below 1,000 in 2018, according to a report released by Environmental Affairs Minister Nomvula Mokonyane.

Ireland has been named in an Interpol report as being a location for the flow of foreign jihadists and African Rhino horn smuggling.

An American investigator into the illegal ivory and rhino horn trade has been found stabbed to death in his home, Kenyan police said.

A rhino breeder in South Africa is planning an online auction of rhino horn, capitalising on a court ruling that opened the way to domestic trade despite an international ban imposed to curb widespread poaching.

The world's last male northern white rhino has joined the Tinder dating app as wildlife experts make a last-ditch breeding effort to keep his species alive.

A southern white rhinoceros calf has been born at Dublin Zoo and is looking for a name.

Kenyan wildlife officers have started stacking 105 tons of ivory and one ton of rhino horns to make 12 towers which are to be torched at the end of the month to encourage global efforts to help stop poaching of elephants and rhinos.

A South African judge has struck down a government ban on the domestic rhino horn trade, alarming some conservationists who say the decision could intensify the slaughter of the threatened species.

Rhinos wearing satellite tracking collars with spy cameras implanted into their horns could help turn the tables on poachers, experts believe.

A lumbering giant will today be unveiled as the newest attraction at Cork’s top tourist draw.

Cork’s Fota Wildlife Park has today unveiled the first Rhinoceros to inhabit the park.

A wild rhino rampaged through a small city in Nepal this morning, killing one woman and injuring others as it chased residents through the streets.

A wild rhinoceros rampaged through a small city in Nepal this morning, killing one woman and injuring others as it chased residents through the streets.