The Indian Rhino, also known as the Greater One-horned Rhino ... the tremendous work by conservationists and anti-poaching teams has helped to give the rhino’s a fighting chance. These Rhino’s are ...

An adult Indian rhino, the largest of the three Asian species ... rhinos remain threatened by poaching, with their horns used in traditional medicine and prized particularly in China and Vietnam.

Criminal networks smuggling rhino horn out of Africa are turning it into jewellery to evade its detection in airports, an investigation has found. Wildlife trade monitoring network Traffic ...

Dibrugarh: A man was detained with a rhinoceros horn, weighing 1.3 kg, from the Dholpur area of Lakhimpur district on Thursday. A police team, led by Narayanpur OC Nipon Gogoi, recovered the horn ...

and some only have one (Indian and Javan). One-horned rhinos are the species that are the most endangered. Horns continue to ...

Rhinos have been hunted and killed for their horns for so long that the many species are teetering on the brink of extinction. Some subspecies, like those of the black rhino, are extinct in areas ...

Horns are also purchased and consumed purely as a symbol of wealth and social status ... In Assam, WWF and the International Rhino Foundation are supporting the 'Indian Rhino Vision 2020', which aims ...

It had been a gift from an Indian sultan to the governor of ... The woodcut was not strictly accurate — it showed the rhino with a second horn between its shoulders, and somewhat scaly skin ...

At first glance this looks very much as an Indian rhino should look - thick, solid legs, armoured back, a tail with a feathered end and, of course, the single horn. But something isn't quite right ...