“Something went very wrong and they came face to face and my friend was badly gored,” a field ranger said of Schoeman van Jaarsveld ...

South Africa loses 352 rhinos to poachers a year. Now it has lost the man who fought hardest to stop it.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The rhino’s rescuers gave her a name: Hope. Poachers in South Africa had darted the rhino with a tranquilizer and hacked off her horns while she was sedated, leaving the animal ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A rhino in South Africa that survived an attack by poachers who cut off her horns, leaving a massive wound on her face, has had a setback in her medical treatment. However, ...

Tributes have been pouring in for Schoeman van Jaarsveld — a longtime anti-poaching conservationist whose life ended in the very place he spent decades protecting. Friends, colleagues and members of ...

A tourist in South Africa was watching a peaceful scene in a game reserve: a baby white rhino with its mother. The baby was nursing while the mother stood calmly in the middle of the road. All at once ...

A lifelong rhino conservationist was gored to death by a black rhinoceros on a reserve in South Africa. Schoeman van Jaarsveld, 58, was pronounced dead after the attack at the Samara Karoo Reserve at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The anti-poacher, who ran a private security firm that protects rhinos from poachers, was on patrol when the incident occurred. In ...