Wildlife Conservation Organization
On Monday we brought you a story that made headlines and stirred up a lot of emotions. In case you missed it, see: “Unpleasant Surprise for Rhino Horn Consumers: Poisoned Rhino Horns“. We want to do a survey and find out what Continue Reading
Devastated by the poaching frenzy of the 1980’s, black rhino populations are dangerously close to extinction. This period of heavy poaching killed off 98% of the black rhino population and saw the massacre of some 90,000 elephants in Tanzania’s 50,000 Continue Reading
WildlifeNOW George Adamson was a legendary figure in the world of wildlife. He devoted his life to his many lions that he was able to reintroduce into the wild, becoming the infamous ‘lion man.’ In 1989, George Adamson’s life ended Continue Reading
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy During the 1970s population of black rhinos had dropped from 20,000 to fewer than 300, putting these animals in danger of becoming extinct. Since then, thanks to the Lewa Conservancy, over 40,000 acres has been dedicated Continue Reading
Rangers in Kruger National Park managed to shoot and wound one rhino poacher in an exchange of gunfire that occurred after a dead rhino was found early Monday morning. The rhino had been shot and its horns were still intact. Continue Reading