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Although progress has been made in combating crimes affecting rhinoceroses, poaching and trafficking continue to represent a ...

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By Dann Okoth Poaching has decimated rhino populations across Africa, but a new study finds that dehorning the animals, or surgically removing their horns, drastically reduces poaching. The study ...

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Rhino poaching may be substantially reduced by removing the reason so many rhinos are poached in the first place: their highly valued horns. Dehorning rhinos dramatically drops the poaching rate ...

Rhino poaching rates remain high in Africa, and dehorning will not solve that crisis or address its systemic drivers, Dr. Kuiper said. “Tackling the root causes of poaching is easy to say but ...

The study did show, however, that some poaching of dehorned rhinos for horn stumps and regrowth continued, while more recent evidence (2024–2025) since the conclusion of the study in 2023 ...

Across South Africa, removing the the object of poachers’ desire reduced rhino deaths by 78 percent, while it raised the question: What is a rhino without its horns?