Sentences with phrase «in rhino horn»

At the moment, trafficking in rhino horn and ivory is more lucrative than trafficking in cocaine.

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.

But since 1993 trade in rhino horn, (as well as tiger parts) was banned by the Chinese government with the aim of stopping the use of endangered wildlife derivatives in TCM: but advocates cling to historical evidence, knowing their ancestors used it, their parents, grandparents: the reason why it continues to be used today by many Chinese families.

A small but notable victory in the fight against rhino poaching and the illegal trade in rhino horn: WWF reports that Chumlong Lemtongthai, a Thai national, has been given a sentence of 40 years in jail for trafficking rhino horns from South Africa.

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

Although rhinoceroses are endangered, legalizing the trade in rhino horns may be the best way to protect them from poachers.

Ironically, legalizing a highly regulated trade in rhino horns might actually end up saving the animals.

Not exact matches

Buying and selling rhino horn internationally was banned in 1977.

Then came a story out of Zimbabwe about how the false belief in the cancer - curing properties of rhino horns has led rhino poaching to a record high.

«Leopard - skin coats, ivory gewgaws and the Chinese belief in the medicinal properties of rhino horn.

A zebra - striped bus unloaded a group of chattering Germans, who proceeded to surround the three rhinos, petting their mud - caked hides, stroking the heavy frontal horn of the big male and posing for fake matador shots — windbreakers sweeping in clumsy verónicas as the camera shutters buzzed.

The harsh environment in which they operate, deprived of natural resources or infrastructure to raid (such as in eastern DRC or the Niger delta), makes ivory and rhino horn trade that much more important.

Kevin Uno at Columbia University in Palisades, New York, and colleagues have now used the technique to test 29 samples, including elephant tusks and rhino horn collected in East Africa.

And this spring, poachers broke into a zoo in Paris and killed a rhino for its horn.

Rhinos are killed for their horns, which are sold illegally in Vietnam and China — at street prices higher than gold — for their purported medicinal qualities.

But in Vietnam — a huge market for illegal rhino horn — it is being used as a hangover cure by the nouveau riche.

What has rhino horn been used for in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)?

In one human study, researchers in Taiwan found that rhino horn temporarily reduced fever in children, but it was no more effective than aspiriIn one human study, researchers in Taiwan found that rhino horn temporarily reduced fever in children, but it was no more effective than aspiriin Taiwan found that rhino horn temporarily reduced fever in children, but it was no more effective than aspiriin children, but it was no more effective than aspirin.

Animal studies done in the UK and South Africa found no pharmacological effects of rhino horn — or any other animal horns.

New uses fuel demand too; think of newly wealthy businessmen in Vietnam consuming rhino horn mixed with water or alcohol to show how rich they are.

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.

Paleontologist John Kappelman of the University of Texas at Austin is finding the answer in northern Ethiopia, where he recently excavated the remains of five new elephant relatives (including the tusks seen here), huge rodent like hyraxes, and a late Arsinoitherium, a seven - foot - tall rhino - shaped beast that sported a pair of enormous conical horns on its snout.

South Africa's Kruger National Park is inviting bids for rhinos under a plan to move 500 of the animals to safety to counter a wave of poaching for their horns, highly prized in some Asian countries as a sign of wealth.

The rhinos, especially, are at risk from poachers who see vast fortunes in the animals» horns.

Vladimir Pitulko, of the Institute for the History of Material Culture in St. Petersburg, discovered spear foreshafts made of mammoth ivory and woolly rhino horn, stone tools, and bones that display signs of butchering.

THREE days after World Wildlife Day, poachers broke into a French zoo not far from Paris, made their way to an enclosure that housed a white rhino called Vince, shot him three times in the head and used a chainsaw to detach his horn.

In total, Li's New York and New Jersey connections helped him buy 25 raw rhino horns, including 13 black rhino horns, they said.

Up until about 2010, only a handful rhinos were poached in Africa but the number shot up when rumors circulated about the same time in Vietnam that a minister's relative was cured of cancer by rhino horn.

More than 1,000 rhinos were poached for their horns in South Africa in 2013, a record number and an increase of over 50 percent from the previous year, the country's department of environmental affairs said on Friday.

In total, there were 30 horns from aurochs and bison as well as red deer antlers, and a rhino skull nearby.

The remains of fires encircling the grave of a Neanderthal toddler contain animal horns and a rhino skull that seem to have been placed there in a funerary ritual

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.

Poaching has surged in the last few years across sub-Saharan Africa, where gangs kill elephants and rhinos to feed Asian demand for ivory and horns for use in traditional medicines.

There is a deep cultural heritage and history around wildlife products such as elephant ivory and rhino horn in some parts of the world.

TRAFFIC's global elephant and rhino programme leader describes the current rhino and elephant poaching crisis, and the illegal trade in their horn and ivory that is driving this.

It was a minor matter to get a friend of a friend, who was a stewardess, to use her free hours before her flight took off again from Beef Island to take a cab to the dive shop and pick up a small quantity of the ground herb concoction, which chemical analysis later revealed to be powdered rhino horn (one could well wonder how they got that in Tortola), mixed with something called dried Annie flower, to which was added a generous pinch — as Lowell suspected — of simple ginger.

As for why the corruption, all the obvious reasons: a) the country's made up of a zillion different historically hostile tribes arbitrarily thrown together as a country by the Brits; b) life is short, there are few official safety nets (e.g., unemployment insurance, pensions), so there are few moral qualms about taking care of your own, no matter what; c) there's not yet any sort of history of democracy, of regulation of profiteering — this is a very young, very capitalist country; d) the outside world and all its wealth provides tremendous incentives for corruption — the amount and indiscriminate nature of foreign aid, the fact that the amount of money that would eventually be paid for, say, a rhino horn dagger will trickle down to paying the poacher enough money to cover his kids» school fees for years; e) the fact that the west encourages the illicitly wealthy in the developing world to hide their loot in western institutions (e.g., Swiss banks).

Atkins has shown her support for animal welfare by creating a bill that strengthened the ban on importing and selling ivory and rhino horns or products in California.

Survived more than 30 years of work in some of the world's most dangerous places, only to be stabbed in his bed NAIROBI, Kenya ---- Nairobi police homicide detectives appear to believe that renowned elephant ivory and rhino horn trafficking investigator Esmond Bradley Martin Jr., 75, was murdered on February 5, 2018 in connection with a -LSB-...]

Chitwan National Park on the Terrai lowlands in Southern Nepal is a biodiverse environment with dense jungles, grassy plains and large rivers that protect many bird species, rare wildlife including leopards, Bengal tigers, one - horned rhinos and other rare mammals found in the national park.

The country has been a rare conservation success story in the past couple of years, and an estimated 534 greater one - horned rhinos remain in Nepal.

Watch as one - horned rhinos roam free, or walk alongside elephants in the conservation haven of Chitwan National Park.

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.

And so he did, and — to my mind — he has established an invaluable hub for insights and discussion related to everything from ecotourism to the Asian demand for rhino horn, which — as you'll hear — has become something of a club drug in Vietnam.

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 200In 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 200in large part by the demand for their «medicinal» horns in the black markets of Asia — up from just 17 killed in 200in the black markets of Asia — up from just 17 killed in 200in 2007.

Still, wildlife biologists say the rhinos in the park face threats from poaching — mainly due to demand in China for the purported medicinal properties of the horns — as well as from a nearby volcano.

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.

Operation COBRA II results in the seizure of 36 rhino horns, three metric tons of elephant ivory, 10,000 turtles, and 1,000 skins of protected species, as well as 10,000 European eels and more than 200 metric tons of rosewood logs, dealing a huge blow to criminals involved in the highly lucrative trade in illegal wildlife.