The black market trade in rhino horns is driving the species to near extinction. Now, scientists at a rhino orphanage in the ...

Conservation scientists in South Africa are injecting rhino horns with radioactive isotopes. The doses are too weak to harm ...

A South African university has launched an anti-poaching campaign to inject the horns of rhinos with radioactive isotopes, ...

Scientists have developed a safe way to embed radioactive markers in rhino horns, making them detectable and help combat ...

Three Chinese men have been arrested for allegedly running a shop in Nha Trang where they sold rhino horns, elephant tusks, ...

The number of critically endangered black rhinos has increased slightly, but there is bad news for other rhino species, ...

Before starting the project, the scientists ensured that these radioactive drugs were absolutely harmless to the animals.

The Rhisotope Project is embedding radioactive isotopes in the horns of rhinos in an effort to prevent poaching. Rhinos ...

We speak with James Larkin, the head of a project in South Africa that's experimenting with using radiation to prevent rhino poaching. They sedate the animals and inject radiation into their horns.

A rhinoceros with a radioactive pellet inserted into its horn at a rhino orphanage in Mokopane, Limpopo district, South Africa, on Tuesday, June 25, 2024. / Credit: Cebisile Mbonani/Bloomberg via ...

Rhino horns are among the most valuable products in the wildlife black market. The appendages have been sold for as high as $400,000 per kilogram — or about $11,000 an ounce — outpacing the ...