Across South Africa, removing the the object of poachers’ desire reduced rhino deaths by 78 percent, while it raised the question: What is a rhino without its horns?

Traditional Chinese medicine has long touted rhino horn as beneficial, but recent research shows that any beneficial minerals are too low in concentration to beat out a daily vitamin.

Last month Chinese health chiefs issued a list of recommended treatments for coronavirus that included the medicine. Rhino horn has been replaced by buffalo horn in the formulation for angong ...

Though rhino horn elixirs for fevers and liver problems were first prescribed in traditional Chinese medicine more than 1,800 years ago, by the early 1990s demand was limited.

For at least 2,000 years, Asian medicine has prescribed rhino horn—ground into powder—to reduce fever and treat a range of maladies.

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A baby rhino has been born in a wildlife sanctuary in Indonesia, sparking hope for the future of the critically endangered species. The little Sumatran rhino was born on Saturday at the Sumatran ...

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Water is sprayed onto the area as a rhino has it's horn trimmed, at the ranch of rhino breeder John Hume, October 16, 2017, in the North West Province of South Africa. Leon Neal/Getty ...

South Africa recorded a roughly 16% drop in rhino poaching last year, with 420 animals killed for their horns versus 499 the previous year, the government said on Thursday.

Three suspects, aged between 35 and 45, were arrested for the illegal possession and sale of rhinoceros horns worth almost ...