This baby rhino was rescued from his mother’s dead body and has found friendship in the most unlikely animal.

It’s been a great weekend for SANparks and the fight against poaching, with a total of 7 arrests made, and one poacher being being taken out by our khaki cops.

The Hawks have arrested a suspected rhino poaching ringleader and his nine accomplices for their alleged involvement in a string of rhino-poaching and related activities in the country.

On 4 October 2014 people in 115 cities across the world will march to call for an end to the poaching crisis that is slaughtering elephants and rhinos in their tens of thousands each year. The Global March for Elephants and Rhinos (GMFER) initiative speaks to TheSouthAfrican about their efforts and plans

The police have initiated several breakthroughs in the fight against rhino poaching and other attacks on the country’s endangered species, says Deputy Minister of Police, Maggie Sotyu

The plight of the rhino speaks for itself in this footage that emerged in the past 24 hour. Viewer discretion is advised

As Mat Hartley from Braai 365 prepares for his 365th daily braai, he reflects on his challenge and the past year.

Mat Hartley has been braaiing every day for nearly 365 days as a challenge to raise funds and awareness for rhino conservation. So he knows a thing or two about cooking meat! Here’s his recipe for the perfect steak on the barbecue.

The funds will go towards creating an “intensive protection zone” in the Kruger National Park, which will use sophisticated detection and tracking equipment on the ground and in the air, elite dog units, highly trained ranger teams, and improved intelligence gathering and surveillance systems to keep poachers at bay.

A total of 1 004 rhinos were poached in 2013, the Department of Environmental Affairs revealed on Friday, compared to 668 rhinos poached in 2012 and 448 in 2011. Thirty-seven rhinos have already been illegally killed in 2014.

In many ways, this was South Africa’s year: the Beloved Country reached the ‘end of the beginning’ of democracy when Madiba passed, and the world celebrated his life and legacy with us. But Mzansi also made headlines when Oscar shot Reeva, and our own national conversation continues to revolve around the urgent national challenges we face and the search for the next generation of leaders.

Thandi the rhino survived an attack at the reserve just outside Port Elizabeth in March last year. Poachers tranquillised three rhino with darts, and hacked off their horns, leaving them to bleed to death. The two other rhinos died from their wounds.

Various possible solutions have been tried and proposed, but as of yet nothing seems to be entirely effective – we have now surpassed last year’s record number of rhinos poached in South Africa.

‘Plight of the Rhino’, the first anthology of short stories from Springbok Publications, recently launched in London. At least £1 from every book sold will go towards the charity Save the Rhino International.

With rhino poaching reaching an all time high, South African National Parks take to the sky with a Gazelle military helicopter to better the chances of catching illegal poachers in South Africa.

The first international rhinoceros DNA sampling training workshop was held in South Africa on 5 and 6 November 2013. The purpose of the workshop was to enhance the world’s enforcement capacity to address the wave of rhinoceros poaching that has resulted in the killing of 825 animals in South Africa since January 2013.

Rhino poaching is an alarming problem in South Africa. Despite efforts by conservationists, the media and the general public, poaching continues to be a grave issue in our country. Two South Africans are teaming up to make a change and accept the ultimate challenge.

Conservationists are implementing unmanned airplane programmes that will see drones used to track rhino and poacher movements in a bid to stop poaching

While it is difficult to obtain precise numbers of fatalities, here is a list of ten animals that cause the most human deaths in South Africa. And you may be surprised to hear that sharks are nowhere near the most deadly…

South Africa rolls out two new anti-poaching initiatives- injecting rhino horns with poison and selling endangered white rhinos to private reserves – in an effort to save the species.

With more than 600 rhinos already slaughtered this year, it is estimated that at least 300 more rhinos will be poached in South Africa by the end of 2013.

A remarkable story of two poached rhinos in South Africa gets the world talking about conservation.

Best known for playing tough guys in Hollywood movies, English actor Tom Hardy takes on some real villains in the South African bush… sort of.

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Rhino are being shot at a rate of more than two a day in South Africa, for the simple fact that rhino horn is valued at more per kilogram than gold. This ITV documentary goes to South Africa to meet the armed men employed to guard rhinos in the Kruger Park, as well as rhino owners who have resorted to unorthodox ways of protecting their animals, such as dehorning them or training elephants to track poachers.