The world's remaining rhinos are mostly in Africa [File: Daniel Irungu/EPA]

Malaysian nicknamed the ‘Godfather’ jailed in US for rhino horn trafficking – Video Investigation

Teo Boon Ching, a Malaysian wildlife trafficker known by a range of aliases including the Godfather, has been jailed for 18 months in the United States for smuggling hundreds of kilos of horns from endangered rhinoceros. Ching, 58, was arrested in Thailand on a US extradition request in June 2022, after a covert operation exposed […]

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African Parks to rewild 2,000 rhinos from controversial breeding program

African Parks to rewild 2,000 rhinos from controversial breeding program

On Sept. 4, African Parks, a multinational nonprofit conservation organization, announced that it had purchased Platinum Rhino, John Hume’s controversial intensive rhino breeding operation, and intended to rewild the more than 2,000 southern white rhinos (Ceratotherium simum simum) that came with it. The news was universally welcomed by those Mongabay has spoken to in South […]

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