The last Northern white rhinos
The Northern white rhino is now one step closer to extinction, following the sad announcement of the death of Suni at Kenya’s Ol Pejeta Conservancy in October 2014. Suni died aged 34 years-old a...
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The Northern white rhino is now one step closer to extinction, following the sad announcement of the death of Suni at Kenya’s Ol Pejeta Conservancy in October 2014. Suni died aged 34 years-old a...
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If there’s one thing that has been on everyone’s mind these past few months, it’s been how to cope with the ‘new normal’, whether that has meant changing how and where we work, finding new w...
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Mothering Sunday in the USA falls on a different day from Mothers’ Day in the UK, which is always celebrated in March. In 2017, Mothering Sunday falls on 14 May. The American version was established...
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On 26 July 2018, the Hon. Najib Balala, Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry for Tourism and Wildlife published the initial results of the independent inquiry into the deaths of nine (now all 11) rhinos...
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The demand for horn driving rhinos towards extinction
Rhino populations are in crisis, an insatiable demand for their horns is driving rhino poaching levels to unprecedented levels, and if this contin...
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Photo credit Thomas Rasmussen @foto by tom
Our accounts for the financial year 2013-14 have not yet been audited, but provisionally, we awarded a total of £662,330 in grants to the rhino conserv...
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What struck me most about the SRT trackers was their incredibly deep knowledge of both the area and the rhinos inhabiting it. Whilst navigating over rocky tracks Sebulon was able to spot High 8, a mal...
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In what could be the biggest rhino horn-trafficking case ever recorded in South Africa, two men have been arrested in possession of 167 rhino horns.
Since the arrest on 13 April 2019, a wealth of theo...
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As the 11th lucky Michael Hearn Intern, in May 2017 I packed up the world’s heaviest backpack (unsure of the etiquette re. rhinos seeing you in the same outfit twice) and set off on the trip of ...
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Against an undefined legislative backdrop, and given the inadequate demonstration of due diligence, we believe that John Hume’s auctions have the potential to become a ‘Trojan horse’...
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The South African Government has announced plans to translocate up to 500 rhino from Kruger National Park to ‘safer locations’, as part of its ‘integrated strategic management of rhi...
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Rangers are exposed to extreme situations, including tough weather, dangerous animals (big and small), large, powerful machinery, and of course, armed poaching gangs and livestock rustlers. Given thes...
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