Sentences with phrase «black rhino horns»
In total, Li's New York and New Jersey connections helped him buy 25 raw rhino horns, including 13 black rhino horns, they said.
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Legalising the trade in rhino horn from South Africa could match black market supply and maybe even double it, with the aim of driving poachers out of business
Sought after for their horns, white rhinos saw their population fall to 100 animals in South Africa by 1910, and only 2,410 black rhinos remained there in 1995.
This perilous situation is a result of a devastating combination of habitat loss (mainly to create lucrative oil - palm plantations) and poaching (to feed the black market for rhino horn).
The winning image, Memorial to a Species (above), captures a black rhino with its horn hacked off, in Hluhluwe - Imfolozi Game Park in South Africa.
ARTIST STATEMENT «The piece is a play on simple vaudeville style adverts that toys with the idea of human interest in viewing the grotesque; in this case, a bloody boxer, black man with a west African rhino head, broken horn in mouth, bloody / bruised face + body, in a classic boxing pose.
In 2012, poachers were responsible for the deaths of 668 endangered African rhinos, driven in large part by the demand for their «medicinal» horns in the black markets of Asia — up from just 17 killed in 2007.
Every day, rhinoceros across Africa and Asia are getting caught in the crosshairs of poachers to supply a lucrative black market demand for rhino horn.
Lemtongthai was convicted of running a crime syndicate which used white rhino trophy hunts as a front to export rhino horn to the black market in Asia.
The total population of black rhinos plunged to less than 2,500 in 1993 from 70,000 or so in 1970, in a slaughter largely driven by the market for rhino horn and related products in Asia.
In 1994 LaBudde and ESP spearheaded efforts to expose Asia's illegal black market trade in endangered species which resulted in the U.S. implementation of trade sanctions against Taiwan for illegal commerce in rhino horn and tiger bone, and passage of domestic legislation in China, South Korea and Hong Kong to ban the trade.
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