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 ...

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

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

Scientists in South Africa are injecting rhinos with radioactive material to enable them to track illegal trade and deter poachers.

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, ...

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

A sedated rhino is being prepared before a hole is drilled into its horn and isotopes carefully inserted, at a rhino ...

Rhino horns in South Africa injected with radioactive isotopes to curb poaching - A South African university has launched an ...

Most rhino poaching happens in South Africa's state-owned game parks. During the first half of 2021, rhino poaching in the country rose by 50% compared to a year earlier when poaching plummeted ...

African rhino populations are increasing despite poaching and habitat loss, new figures from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) show. The new figures, released Thursday ...