Since the start of limited black rhino hunting in both Namibia and South Africa in 2004, total numbers of black rhinos in the two countries have increased by an estimated 51% (although this cannot ...

Black rhinos have "the highest combat mortality rates of any mammal," Namibia's Oshili 24 reports. "Approximately 50 percent of males and 30 percent of females die from combat-related injuries." ...

Today, roughly 2,000 black rhinos and 15,000 white rhinos are left in South Africa. Larger parks have invested in electronic tracking surveillance and armies of anti-poaching rangers, and have ...

A record 1,215 rhinos were poached in 2014 and the killing goes on – despite greater efforts to protect them. But some new populations of black rhinos are thriving. Back in 2003, WWF began ...

There are less than 40 surviving black rhinos in the Mara – down from 150 in the 1960s – and wardens estimate that as many as 22 have already been driven out of the area of the lodge, many ...

Three years ago, there were no southern white rhinos in Kenya's Lewa-Borana Landscape. Now, there are 123 — and 141 critically endangered black rhinos.

But fighting a phantom cure proved almost impossible. “If it was a real person, ... Black rhinos were knocked down by the poaching crisis of the 1990s to fewer than 2,500 animals, ...

Black rhinos (Diceros bicornis) are native to Eastern and Southern Africa. The IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority, lists the species as critically endangered , with just 6,468 across ...