For the pilot study, 20 rhinos were injected with the radioactive material last year, which proved that it was not harmful to ...

South Africa has launched an innovative anti- poaching campaign, injecting rhino horns with radioactive isotopes to deter ...

South African scientists have launched an anti-poaching campaign in which rhino's horns will be injected with a radioactive ...

In Mokopane, South Africa, researchers at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg have launched the Rhisotope Project, ...

While conservation efforts have seen rhino populations in South Africa and other parts of their range begin to bounce back from the brink of extinction, poaching is still very much a problem. In 2024, ...

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

South African scientists have launched the Rhisotope Project, injecting rhino horns with harmless radioactive isotopes to ...

A South African university launched an anti-poaching campaign Thursday to inject the horns of rhinos with radioactive isotopes that it says are harmless for the animals but which can be detected by ...

In response, this project run by the University of the Witwatersrand is using radiation to support conservation and enforcement efforts. After two years of initial tests, the Rhisotope Project was ...

A sedated rhino is being prepared before a hole is drilled into its horn and isotopes carefully inserted, at a rhino orphanage in Mokopane, South Africa. AP Photo/Alfonso Nqunjana ...

South African National Parks, which runs some of the world’s premier wildlife reserves, said it’s in discussions with Rand ...