Black rhinos are the junkyard dogs of African rhinos. They’re not the biggest species on the continent, but they’re known for aggressively patrolling and defending their territories and are quick to charge any person, vehicle or other rhino they perceive as an intruder.
One of the keys to that behavior, it turns out, appears to be their horns.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/12/climate/black-rhinos-horns.html
Sixteen southern white rhinoceroses have been released into Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), officials said on Saturday, reintroducing an endangered species that was decimated by poaching.
The last northern white rhino in the park, which lies in the DRC’s northeast, was poached in 2006.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/11/white-rhinos-reintroduced-to-dr-congo-national-park
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It was supposed to be a homecoming of sorts for U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, after her agency spent many months hosting public meetings and talking with Native American leaders about curbing the pace of oil and gas development in the San Juan Basin and protecting culturally significant sites.
But her return to Chaco Culture National Historical Park on Sunday was derailed when a group of Navajo landowners blocked the road, upset with the Biden administration’s recent decision to enshrine for the next 20 years what previously had been an informal 10-mile (16-kilometer) buffer around the World Heritage site.
https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/four-corners/protest-derails-planned-celebration-of-20-year-ban-on-oil-drilling-near-chaco-national-park/
