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

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Rhisotope Project, supported by the IAEA, is safely inserting radioactive isotopes into rhino horns to deter poachers and stop smuggling by making the horns detectable at international borders.

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

We are sharing with you today perhaps the saddest wildlife video we’ve uncovered. In a YouTube video from The Telegraph, a ...

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 ...