Going, going, gone? Rhino horn trafficking soars as Vietnamese drink more
- 9 years ago
Black market trafficking of rhino horn has risen 30-fold in just 13 years, causing a huge drop in the population of the African rhinos, an animal protection group said Thursday.
The International Fund for Animal Welfare said that demand from Asia, where powdered horn is used in traditional medicine, meant trafficking was now ‘out of control’.
In 2013, more than 2,000 rhino horns were trafficked from Africa, an increase of 30 times the amount in the year 2000.
Made of keratin, the same material that is in hair and nails, rhino horn sells for around 35,000 thousands per pound on the black market, making it more expensive than gold and heroin.
Surging demand has had a huge effect on the population of African rhinos, which has shrunk by more than 90 percent since 1970.
In a recent case, the luggage of two Vietnamese men travelling from Mozambique was to contain 41 kilos of rhino horn when they were stopped in Johannesburg on November 1.
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The International Fund for Animal Welfare said that demand from Asia, where powdered horn is used in traditional medicine, meant trafficking was now ‘out of control’.
In 2013, more than 2,000 rhino horns were trafficked from Africa, an increase of 30 times the amount in the year 2000.
Made of keratin, the same material that is in hair and nails, rhino horn sells for around 35,000 thousands per pound on the black market, making it more expensive than gold and heroin.
Surging demand has had a huge effect on the population of African rhinos, which has shrunk by more than 90 percent since 1970.
In a recent case, the luggage of two Vietnamese men travelling from Mozambique was to contain 41 kilos of rhino horn when they were stopped in Johannesburg on November 1.
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