Kenya is embarking on an ambitious plan to microchip every rhino in the country in a drive to combat a surge of poaching, say wildlife officials.

A one-two punch of poaching and habitat loss threatens the creatures.

As Africa's wildlife reserves have emptied of tourists and curtailed patrols, opportunistic poachers are storming parks and other protected areas.

Conservationists are outraged after the end of a long-standing ban in the nation on trophy hunting.