Rhino population increase in Nepal
 Excellent news from Nepal, where the government has reported a further growth in the country’s Greater one-horned rhino population, with a 21% increase in the past four years.
This means that Nepal’s rhino population now stands the highest since the early 1950’s, showing decades of conservation success for the species.
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Rhinos return to Samburu
 This May, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) and Lewa Conservancy embarked on translocations to re-establish the black rhino population in Kenya’s Sera Community Conservancy.
20 black rhino were pre-selected to be moved to the newly established rhino sanctuary. More than half of the rhinos had been moved when a tragic turn of events meant KWS had to put the translocations on hold due to the death of three rhinos (not due to poaching).
The teams involved did everything they could to ensure the health and safety of the translocated rhinos, but sadly complications can and do arise with relocations. The remaining rhinos are being intensively monitored 24/7 by a joint team of KWS vets, Lewa and Sera Community Conservancy scouts, with aircraft support.
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Synthetic rhino horn? Will it save the rhino?
One of the suggestions for tackling the rhino poaching crisis is the proposed manufacture of synthetic rhino horn. But will the manufacture and sale of synthetic horn mean that fewer rhinos are poached? Or will it expand the market for such products, complicate law-enforcement, and lead to more rhino killings?
Save the Rhino and the International Rhino Foundation are opposed to the development, marketing and sale of synthetic rhino horn.
We’ve developed a detailed discussion of this issue and the reasons for our opposition online.
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Local communities key for Namibian rhino conservation
 Save the Rhino Trust (SRT) in Namibia has re-established its ‘Traditional Authorities Engagement Programme’ to engage with local headmen and their councillors to combat rhino poaching in Namibia’s Kunene region.
To rebuild and strengthen the relationship between SRT and the Traditional Authorities, a road tour took place in March with SRT field staff and 27 headmen, chiefs and councillors. Over the five day trip, the group experienced a range of activities including talks, tours of key rhino areas and discussions on how to tackle the rhino poaching crisis.
Namibia is experiencing a recent increase in rhino poaching and it is essential to have everyone involved in combating the threat from criminal syndicates.
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Rhino horns seized in Mozambique go missing
 This month Mozambique seized 1.3 tons of elephant ivory and rhino horn, the equivalent of 235 dead animals, in the country’s biggest ever find of illegal wildlife products.
However within a few weeks thieves raided the storeroom, which was reportedly left secured by just three padlocks, and stole 12 rhino horns.
Mozambique faces international scrutiny for its role in the rhino poaching crisis and failure to tackle illegal wildlife trafficking.
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Rhino poaching crisis South Africa
Rhino poaching in South Africa is at record levels, the country’s environment minister, Edna Molewa, has warned, with an 18% rise in the first four months of 2015 on the same period a year ago.
Mrs Molewa said that by the end of April 2015 the number of rhino lost to poachers was 393 for the whole country, with 290 of these poached in Kruger National Park.
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