A rhino breeder in South Africa is planning an online auction of rhino horn, capitalizing on a court ruling that opened the way to domestic trade despite an international ban. The online sale of rhino horn belonging to breeder John Hume will happen August 21-24 and revenue will be used to ...
Most common today is skin, but occasionally nails and even dried penises are for sale. Sometimes at the back of the medicine shop can be seen on a small altar a statue of Buddha and a 'rhino' horn beside it for worship. These horns are not for sale and in fact they are usually ...
This means that every rhino horn offered for sale through RHTA must possess a DNA certificate. Genetic profiling is the key control in establishing the provenance of every rhino horn on offer. By this mechanism no "blood" horn is able to enter the market. Jones said the revenue generated fr...
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South Africa's poaching crisis began in 2008, when 83 rhino were killed. The government banned the sale of rhino horn in response, but poaching skyrocketed – and for the past five years, more than a thousand rhino have been slaughtered every year. ...
"The department wishes to place on record that the planned sale of rhino horn by private rhino owners is for domestic trade only," said Modise. But domestic trade in rhino horn is subject to the issuance of the relevant permits in terms of the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Ac...
($87-105) per kilogram and $85,773-103,519 for all the pieces in the 9 lots. This sale, approved by the department Minister, significantly undercut both the retail and wholesale prices being asked for rhino horn abroad. The same document cites wholesale rhino horn prices in India as $...
Legalizing the rhino horn trade has not helped prevent poaching, In fact, it has only increased the killing of rhinos for their horns1. Our world's remaining rhinos are disappearing, and if a ban on the sale of rhino horns is not soon put in place in South Africa, they may disappear ...
The threat to the two species mainly comes from poaching for the illegal international rhino horn trade. Fortunately, in recent years, a number of groups including range states, private landowners, and communities have been making efforts to protect them, and the measures are working. In 2015, ...