US EditionOn World Rhino Day, South Africa marks progress but still loses a rhino daily to poachers
South Africa's conservation efforts include relocating rhinos and injecting radioactive material into horns, yet poachers kill about one rhino daily, with 195 deaths in the year's first half.
- On Thursday, September 18, 2025, a rhinoceros was observed within the Dinokeng reserve located close to Hammanskraal in South Africa as part of ongoing efforts to protect the species.
- This sighting occurs amid a continued poaching crisis where 195 rhinos were killed in the first half of 2025, following years of over 1,000 annual losses.
- To combat poaching, conservationists revived South Africa's 1960s Operation Rhino to move white rhinos from eastern regions to safer areas and started a program injecting radioactive material into rhino horns to make them unsellable and traceable.
- Wildlife monitor Marius Fuls urged persistence and optimism among conservationists, stressing that losing hope means conceding defeat in the fight to prevent rhino extinction, as they represent the final safeguard for these species.
- Despite advances and marked progress reducing annual poaching, South Africa remains the epicenter of rhino poaching, highlighting the ongoing challenge to protect the species' future.
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A Troubling Stat Marks World Rhino Day
The Dinokeng Game Reserve in South Africa has a thriving rhino population, but their exact numbers and the details of the security operation that keeps them safe from poaching are closely guarded secrets. They are protocols that reserves with rhinos follow to safeguard against poachers who still kill on average...
Conservationists are celebrating World Rhino Day today, a day created to raise awareness about the conservation of the species. Despite decades of effort to save the species, an average of one rhino is killed every day in South Africa for its ivory. This ivory can fetch more than gold on the illegal market. South Africa is home to the largest rhino populations in the world, and the country sees itself as the guardian of their future. Over 2,000 …
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South Africa marks World Rhino Day as poaching slows but one still killed daily
Conservationists mark world rhino day on Monday while they are still in a constant battle against poaching. In South Africa, the fight has been going on for decades.
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