As a young, poorly educated Maasai, John Pameri walked a hundred kilometres to get a job at Kenya’s Lewa Conservancy – twice. Two decades later he’s head of a 150-strong security team, recently gained his pilot’s licence, and travels internationally...

The campaign to legalise trade in rhino horn as a potential solution to the poaching epidemic has gained a lot of traction in recent months, most recently with a paper written by leading environmental scientists in the journal Science calling...

Meet Sekora Gunikhwe, rhino whisperer. Sekora’s rather extraordinary job is to get to know six very special white rhino, to understand their individual behavioural quirks, and to familiarise the animals with his presence. To do this he chats quietly to...

As awards time comes around once again and gongs are given out to the great and good we felt it was timely to celebrate the success of Ol Pejeta, an impressive Kenyan rhino sanctuary we visited late last year, which...

Vincent Barkas is stooped over the ground in front of his office. He’s adding yet another white cross to the many rows of white crosses that mark the loss of every rhino killed in South Africa’s current poaching epidemic. The...

Poaching doesn’t just kill rhinos, it diminishes the habitat available to those left alive, because the spiralling cost of security is forcing some landowners to remove the animals from their land. Yet in Kenya’s Laikipia district, one ranch is taking...

It’s not a record to brag about: the number of rhinos poached in South Africa so far this year has now overtaken last year’s figure of 448. Official government stats, released on October 16, show 455 rhinos poached. That figure...

They may have wet noses and waggy tails, but don’t underestimate the latest recruits to South Africa’s war on rhino poachers. Foxhounds Chico, Jetta and Kombi are nearing the end of rigorous training and will soon be deployed as part...

Say ‘jambo’ to a special black rhino named Elvis who we met on our recent travels in Kenya. He’s one of Lewa Wildlife Conservancy’s hand-reared black rhinos now successfully returned to the wild and is a real character. Elvis was...

A ground-breaking rhino DNA database being used to dramatically improve prosecution of poachers and horn traffickers may be extended to help fight the illegal trade in body parts of lions and other African species. The RhoDIS database created by the...