To import a black rhino trophy, permits under both the Act and the CITES treaty are required. To issue the permits, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has to not only find that trophy hunting is not ...

At the end of the 19th century this fearsome yet relatively placid grass-eater, which can grow to more than 5,000 pounds, was nearing extinction, a victim of indiscriminate hunting. Then in 1895 a ...

Lemtongthai played a principal role in a syndicate which used white rhino trophy hunts in South Africa to obtain horns to trade in the Asian black markets, a practice known as “pseudo-hunting”. During ...

Many southern white rhinos in South Africa are under private ownership on rhino farms, where they’re used commercially for breeding, photographic tourism, legal hunting, and horn production.

The winning image from the fifty-third Wildlife Photographer of the Year captures the aftermath of an act of brutality: a dead black rhino, killed for its commercially valuable horn. Museum mammal ...