The black rhino is one of the rarest animals on the African continent — but it wasn't always. At the beginning of the 20th century, there may have been a million black rhinos across Africa. Learn more ...

A baby eastern black rhino has been born in Kenya, an event wildlife researchers are dubbing as a conservation success for the critically endangered species. The calf, estimated to be 6 months old, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? The Buffalo Zoo announced Friday the arrival of a rhinoceros, Romeo. Romeo is a four-year-old Eastern Black rhino from Lincoln Park Zoo ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. For millennia, the rhinoceros stood as one of Earth’s great ...

A group of 19 critically endangered black rhinos have been moved from South Africa's Eastern Cape to a new range in the Limpopo province to encourage increased breeding and population growth. A group ...

The Western black rhinoceros has officially been declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the world’s largest conservation network. A subspecies of the black ...

The new eastern black rhinoceros is believed to be about six months old A new eastern black rhino has been born in the wild in Kenya The critically endangered rhino calf brings the small subpopulation ...

Dehorning black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) to prevent poaching could have affect the behaviour and social lives of the endangered animals, data published in PNAS shows. Once dehorned, their home ...

The Wildlife Conservation Bond (WCB), is a first-of-its-kind, outcome-based, financial instrument that channels investments to achieve conservation outcomes – measured in this case by an increase in ...

Nick Harvey Sky received funding for this research from the Natural Environmental Research Council, Chester Zoo and the International Rhino Foundation. Susanne Shultz received funding for this ...