📰 #RhinoPoaching has nearly doubled in Kruger National Park, with 175 rhinos killed in 2025 🦏

Every rhino lost is a blow to biodiversity & Africa’s natural heritage.

👉 The future of rhinos depends on awareness, protection & collective action: https://bit.ly/ASINI35X

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Rhino killers shift their sights back to Kruger National Park The good news is that poachers slaughtered far fewer rhinos in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park in KwaZulu-Natal last year. The bad news is that they killed many more in Kruger National Park instead.…

A look at the recently released updated #rhinopoaching numbers for 2025.
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Rhino Poaching Across South Africa Decreases by 16% in 2025 - Helping Rhinos Rhinos Need Your Help

Following Wednesday’s announcement from the South African Government of updated #rhinopoaching statistics for 2025, we’ve taken a deeper look a what the numbers tell us.
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Faro Zitha sentenced to 10 years in prison for rhino poaching Faro Zitha, a 31-year-old Mozambican national, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for multiple wildlife offences, including rhino poaching, after being apprehended in Kruger National Park.

South African authorities have sentenced a Mozambican national to 10 years in prison for rhino poaching related offences. #rhinopoaching
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KZN rhino poaching declines as Ezemvelo intensifies protection | Northern Natal News Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife reports a major decline in rhino poaching, praising rangers and outlining strengthened security measures.

Officials in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal Province have announced a drastic decline in #rhinopoaching, with just 86 rhinos lost so far this year to poaching, compared with 218 in the same period last year.
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A female black rhino stands facing the camera, with an older calf behind her. They stand amongst yellow long grass with green bushes behind them.

A black rhino stands facing diagonally to the camera. They stand amongst yellow long grass with green bushes behind them.

A black rhino walks towards the camera. The grass underfoot is short and yellow with green bushes behind them in the distance.

A white rhino on the left of the image stands with its horn touching the horn of a black rhino on the right of the image. A herd of impala can be seen behind them. The grass under the rhinos is covered with rhino dung.

Please join us in saying a huge congratulations to our project-partners Ol Pejeta Conservancy as they mark 8 consecutive years without a single #rhinopoaching incident.
This is a testament to those on ground, behind the scenes, and the Conservancy's holistic approach to #conservation. 🙏

Poachers slay black rhino in Great Fish state reserve - Talk of the Town GUY ROGERS Concerns raised after second incident in province in matter of days Rhino poachers have struck again in the Eastern Cape, killing a mother and leaving her calf orphaned. This time the incid...

Concerning news from South Africa's Eastern Cape of another #rhinopoaching, the second incident in the past two weeks.
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Skukuza court postpones one of the longest rhino poaching cases Former Kruger ranger Rodney Landela faces poaching charges after being linked to a white rhino killing.

The rhino poaching case against former Kruger ranger Rodney Landela and co-accused Kenneth Motshotsho has been postponed to late November. #rhinopoaching
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Notorious South African wildlife criminal’s dubious pursuit of hunting permit in Botswana | The Citizen Dawie Groenewald is facing more than 1 600 charges related to rhino poaching, but his bail conditions allow for international travel.

Despite facing over 1600 charges in #SouthAfrica relating to #rhinopoaching, suspected poaching kingpin Dawie Groenewald's bail conditions allow foreign travel, seeing him now embroiled in a supposed cover-up in Botswana in relation to hunting permits.
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BREAKING: Former owner of the world's largest rhino conservation farm John Hume has been granted R100K bail after being arrested for allegedly running an international rhino horn trafficking syndicate that moves rhino horns from South Africa targeting markets […]

[Original post on mastodon.africa]

Operation Falcon: 42 arrests, gangs busted in Assam’s year-long rhino poaching crackdown The poachers have been arrested from Biswanath, Darrang, Nagaon, Karbi Anglong, Sonitpur, Udalguri, Dibrugarh and Cachar.

A year-long law enforcement operation around India's Assam National Park has lead to 42 arrests and dismantled a criminal gang linked to #rhinopoaching authorities have announced.
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Serial offenders fuel rhino poaching crisis Just around 7% of all suspects arrested for rhino-related crimes in Namibia over the past decade had been convicted by the end of 2024.Since 2015, when the current rhino poaching...

Concerningly Namibia's National Report on Wildlife Protection has revealed that over 50% of indivduals accused of #rhinopoaching are repeat offenders, and only 7% of those accused in the past ten years had been convicted by the end of 2024.
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‼️195 Rhinos Poached in First Half of 2025‼️
As part of their G20 Presidency South Africa’s Environment Minister Dr Dion George has announced high-level #rhinopoaching numbers for the first half of 2025. Find more detail in our newest article ⬇️
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Reminder- NITheCS Colloquium - today @ 16:00 SAST
‘Fighting Rhino Poaching: Enforcement or Dehorning?’
Dr Timothy Kuiper (NMU) will share research insights on how to reduce rhino poaching
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Inside South Africa's wildlife CSI school helping to catch poachers South Africa faces an acute poaching crisis, with more than 10 000 rhinos killed since 2007 according to the International Rhino Foundation.

South Africa’s Wildlife Forensic Academy is teaching rangers and law enforcement the skills needed to effectively anage and analyse #rhinopoaching crime scenes.

NITheCS Colloquium | Mon, 7 July @ 16:00 SAST
‘Fighting Rhino Poaching: Enforcement or Dehorning?’
Dr Timothy Kuiper (NMU) will share insights from research across 11 southern African reserves.
📍 Attend in person or online
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#RhinoConservation #WildlifeProtection #RhinoPoaching

The trial of former #KrugerNationalPark ranger Rodney Landela and his co-accused has been adjourned until Thursday - Landela and his co-accused Kenneth Motshotsho were arrested on suspicion of #rhinopoaching in 2016.

Indonesia convicts trafficking accomplice in a Javan rhino poaching scandal Indonesia’s highest court has overturned the acquittal of an accused translator who facilitated transactions in the international trade of poached rhino horns. The Supreme Court in Indonesia recently ...

An Indonesian court has convicted another person in connection with a recently exposed #rhinopoaching ring - a man beleived to have been a translator for the poaching gang has been sentenced to one year in prison.

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