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Singapore snares record haul of smuggled rhino horns from South Africa
Reuters, Published on 18/11/2025
» SINGAPORE — Singapore seized a record 35.7 kilogrammes of smuggled rhinoceros horns worth about S$1,130,000 (US$867,430) en route to Laos, the largest haul in Singapore to date, the National Parks Board said on Tuesday.
Landmark Nepal survey estimates nearly 400 elusive snow leopards
AFP, Published on 23/04/2025
» KATHMANDU - Nepal's first nationwide survey of the threatened snow leopard estimated nearly 400 of the elusive big cats in the Himalayan nation, wildlife officials said Tuesday.
Oldest human genomes reveal how a small group burst out of Africa
By Carl Zimmer of the New York Times, Published on 16/12/2024
» NEW YORK - About 45,000 years ago, a tiny group of people - fewer than 1,000 - wandered the icy northern fringes of Europe. Across thousands of miles of tundra, they hunted woolly rhinoceros and other big game. Their skin was most likely dark.
Endangered Sumatran rhino born in Indonesia
Reuters, Published on 02/10/2023
» JAKARTA: An endangered Sumatran rhinoceros, the smallest and hairiest of the five extant rhino species, was born in Indonesia last week in a conservation area, the government said on Monday.
Turtles and see-through frogs on agenda at wildlife summit
AFP, Published on 22/11/2022
» PANAMA CITY - A global wildlife summit in Panama will decide whether to take measures to protect the translucent glass frog and 12 types of freshwater turtles in its final week, which kicked off Monday.
Singapore makes biggest seizure of rhino horn
AFP, Published on 05/10/2022
» Singapore authorities have made their biggest ever seizure of rhino horn with a US$830,000 haul confiscated from a smuggler arriving from South Africa, officials said Wednesday.
Malaysia's last Sumatran rhinoceros dies
Reuters, Published on 24/11/2019
» KUALA LUMPUR: The last Sumatran rhinoceros in Malaysia died on Saturday, leaving the smallest species of rhino, which once roamed across Asia, surviving in small numbers mostly in Indonesia.
Eggs from last northern white rhinos 'successfully fertilised'
Reuters, Published on 26/08/2019
» NAIROBI: Seven eggs from the world's last two northern white rhinos have been successfully fertilised artificially, reviving hopes of saving the endangered animals, scientists said on Monday.
Vietnam confiscates 125kg of smuggled rhino horns
AP, Published on 29/07/2019
» HANOI: Vietnam's customs authority has confiscated 125 kilogrammes of rhino horns worth up to US$4 million (123 million baht) found in an air shipment.
Hell in high water: Braving the monsoon to save India's rhinos
AFP, Published on 05/07/2019
» KAZIRANGA NATIONAL PARK, Assam, India: The monsoon may bring respite from the scorching heat, but for the rangers and animals at Kaziranga National Park it also brings danger as poachers take advantage of greater camouflage and flooding.