Sentences with phrase «rhino horn»

Rhino populations are being hammered by poachers, steeping Africa in blood and pushing the species ever - closer to extinction to satisfy the demand for rhino horn in Vietnam and other countries — a demand largely based on the myth...

Use of rhino horn in Traditional Chinese Medicine [TCM below] and Traditional Oriental Medicine dates back centuries.

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

Vietnam's CITES Management Authority's International Cooperation Official Nguyen Thi Minh Thoung South Africa hosted several side events on rhinos, setting the stage for a proposal to legalize rhino horn trade, which is ludicrously argued as a «necessity» to save rhinos.

He followed a complex trail to expose a thriving laundering operation for African ivory and rhino horn from Vietnam to China.

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.

If the allegations are true Zimbabwe intends to prosecute Grace Mugabe for ivory and rhino horn smuggling.

Authorities at the Hong Kong International Airport made a record seizure of illegal rhino horns last week, estimated to be worth about $ 2.2 million, officials said.

Zhifei Li, 29, said he had sold 30 raw rhino horns for as much as $ 17,500 each to Chinese factories that carve them into cups that are thought to improve health, according to federal prosecutors.

The night before he had told me in camp that there appeared to be, in China, a bottomless market for rhino horn as an aphrodisiac and as a cure for the impotence of old age.

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-...]

Under the cover of then - legal rhino trophy hunts on game farms, Chumlong Lemtongthai exported rhino horn to the Asian black market.

Buying and selling rhino horn internationally was banned in 1977.

Several species of sharks and rays were also newly listed under the convention, and countries voted to defeat a controversial proposal by Swaziland to permit sales of white rhino horn.

Shortly before traveling to Miami for an antiques fair, Li texted his Queens, New York, art dealer that he had $ 500,000 to spend on rhino horns and ivory, prosecutors said.

The last major bust in Hong Kong occurred in 2011, when officials seized a shipment of ivory and rhino horns valued at $ 2.2 million in Hong Kong dollars.

In the past week, over 150 federal agents raided homes and businesses across the United States in a crackdown on an international rhino horn ring.

Now, had this or some other guy turned his life around by following their horoscope, using new - age crystals, eating rhino horn, or something else like this you and others like you would be adding your criticisms to ours, right?

«High demand for rhino horn means poaching can not be defeated with force on force,» Jooste noted after his appointment, «The only thing that can make a difference is taking on the crime networks.

Given that rhinos are endangered, is rhino horn still used today?

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.

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

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.

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.

Allowing seized and farmed rhino horn to be traded to fund conservation measures will simply encourage more poaching, says Richard Schiffman

Unlike rhino horn, says Stephen Nash of TRAFFIC, powdered saiga horn does seem to be extremely useful for treating fever and headaches.

After her first Humane Lobby Day, Osterman began working working with state lawmakers to pass an elephant ivory and rhino horn ban in Maryland.

With this comes the execution of sophisticated poaching rings, using these newly built roads and newly formed relationships to stealthily get rhino horn and elephant tusks out of Africa and into the market in China and further across Asia.

Although rhino horns are primarily composed of keratin, like human fingernails, a misconception among mystics touts powdered horn as an aphrodisiac — launching prices for the ill - gained material to upwards of $ 100,000 per kilogram.

The market was so insatiable that a mature rhino horn was worth a fortune in Hong Kong or Beijing.

With perfectly valid and cost effective herbal remedies, who exactly is benefiting from the trade in the prohibitively expensive rhino horn?

In the last 18 months alone, more than 1,000 rhinos in Africa have been killed as a result of soaring demand for rhino horn products.

Jackie Chan, a global star for his mashups of Charlie Chaplin and Bruce Lee, is working with the conservation group WildAid to raise awareness of the environmental cost of high demand for rhinoceros horn in China and Vietnam (where rhino horn has become something of a club drug).

In this case, airport scanners revealed the presence of hidden rhino horn and elephant ivory, but conservationists have no way of telling how many illegal goods slip under the radar.

We need campaigns to educate [people], just as we need to work positively with those countries whose citizens provide the mass market for rhino horn ivory and increasingly, lion parts, to halt the demand,» said Dr. Jacobsohn.

Soon after my meeting with Hanks, in collaboration with Prince Bernhard he used the funds I had been told about to set up a unit of former SAS soldiers in apartheid South Africa to track down ivory and rhino horn poachers and traders in neighbouring countries.

Rhinos are being decimated by violent and organized criminals for the black market medicine trade, although numerous studies have shown no medicinal value in rhino horn beyond the placebo effect.

Along the same lines as a proposed ivory trade, a legal rhino horn trade directly conflicts with and undermines demand reduction strategies and serves as a means to launder illegally obtained products.

Though there are also more extreme ideas we've seen floated, including injecting rhino horns with poison so that anyone using them will die.

Most rhino horns leaving southern Africa are destined for markets in Asia, especially Vietnam, where demand has escalated in recent years.

Each year, hundreds of endangered African rhinos are killed or injured by poachers to serve the increasingly lucrative rhino horn black market, where horns are worth more weight than gold.

Armed with skin as durable as armor and an intimidating temperament, African rhinos are well equipped to face down almost any natural predator — but when it comes to the horrific activities of illegal rhino horn smugglers, even they could use some backup.

I have nothing to do with composing the recipes, and now that Lowell has mastered the computer, I sometimes don't even --» «Tell her about tracking down the powdered rhino horn,» Kathryn says, stroking the collapsed kitten.

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.

Investigators began focusing on Li in 2011, when a government informant sold two raw rhino horns to a middleman at the Vince Lombardi rest stop on the New Jersey stretch of Interstate 95.

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.

Unless these zoos vigorously oppose Swaziland's proposal to sell rhino horns, their conservation claims will forever ring hollow.»

Czech authorities seized 24 white rhino horns and charged 16 suspected members of an international ring smuggling the prized material to Asia, the customs department said on Tuesday.

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