The Kruger National Park in South Africa is where most of the country's rhino are being slaughtered. Authorities are battling to protect the species from poaching gangs.

Poaching figures dropped by a third in 2020, with South Africa's environmental ministry citing the coronavirus lockdown as a significant reason for this. The country is home to 80% of the world's rhinoceroses.

Paleontologists have found one of the best-preserved specimens of the Ice Age animal to date in Russia's extreme north. They dated the carcass as anywhere from 20,000-to 50,000-years-old.

The conservation group Rhino 911 is hunting down rhinos to cut off their horns — to save them from becoming the target of poachers who kill them just to sell the horns as a form of traditional medicine.

The zoo in western Germany celebrated the arrival of a hefty baby southern white rhinoceros. After a 16-month pregnancy, rhino mother Shakina gave birth to the 50-kilogram male calf.

The female rhino is believed to have died of natural causes, according to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority. The average rhino age in the wild is between 37 and 43, though they can live up to 50 in captivity.