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...

Swish, swish, swish… Swish, swish, swish… Everything is silent save for the rhythmic rustling of boots through the dry winter grasslands of the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi game reserve in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal. We’ve joined up with members of the state conservation authority’s...

Most of the world’s athletes are in training right now for London 2012, the biggest test of their careers, but spare a thought for some sporting white rhinos, limbering (or should that be lumbering?) up to put their own serious...

The breadcrumb trail saw us heading north of the border for the second time in as many weeks in the search of all things African rhino. It seems strange to be headed for Scotland in pursuit of our rhino story...

The offices and laboratories may be shiny and modern, but CSI Miami it ain’t. On a damp, grey Scottish morning, the SASA complex on the western fringes of Edinburgh feels a million miles away from Florida’s steamy tropical surroundings. A...