7/2/2023 0 Comments Ivory by Keith SomervilleThese have included:Ī ban on the international trade in rhino horn in 1977. There have been a number of initiatives to protect both black and white rhinos from extinction. It lost at least 5,061 rhinos between 20. South Africa, home to the majority of Africa's white rhino, has borne the brunt of the offensive. They nevertheless remain under serious threat. They are now back up to between 19,682 and 21,077. White rhino rehabilitation was even more dramatic with numbers as low as 50 in the wild in the early 1900s. Massive poaching over decades had reduced the black rhino in Africa from 65,000 in 1970 to 2,300 in 1993.Īnti-poaching and conservation programmes enabled a recovery to a population between 5,042 and 5,455. Over the past nine years 5,940 African rhinos have been killed for their horns. Rhino horn can fetch up to US$60,000 per kg on the illegal market and is worth more by weight than diamonds or cocaine. Rhino horn is a long-used ingredient in Chinese traditional medicine and is now even more eagerly sought after in Vietnam. Africa's rhinos are seriously threatened by poaching, which feeds the demand for rhino horn in Vietnam and China.
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