All five of the world’s diverse species of rhinoceros have been brought to the edge of extinction because of human appetite for their distinctive horns. The horns have been prized for tens of centuries for their beautiful translucent color when carved, and their supposed healing properties.
In the Middle Eastern country of Yemen, the horn continues to be coveted by Muslim men, although imports were banned in 1982. The material, whose luster increases with age, is used for the handles of curved daggers called “jambiya,” which are presented to Yemeni boys at age 12. Jambiya are considered a sign of manhood and devotion to the Muslim religion, and are used for personal defense. Yemeni men place great value on the dagger handles, which are commonly studded with jewels. In China, the ornamental use of rhino horn dates back to at least the 7th century AD. Over the centuries, rhino horns have been carved into ceremonial cups, as well as buttons, belt buckles, hair pins, and paperweights.
Far more pervasive, however, is their use in the traditional medicine systems of many Asian countries, from Malaysia and South Korea to India and China, to cure a variety of ailments. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the horn, which is shaved or ground into a powder and dissolved in boiling water, is used to treat fever, rheumatism, gout, and other disorders. According to the 16th century Chinese pharmacist Li Shi Chen, the horn could also cure snakebites, hallucinations, typhoid, headaches, carbuncles, vomiting, food poisoning, and “devil possession.” (However, it is not, as commonly believed, prescribed as an aphrodisiac).
Historical mentions of other uses for the horns date back thousands of years. In Greek mythology, they were said to possess the ability to purify water. The ancient Persians of the 5th century BC thought that vessels carved from the horn could be used to detect poisoned liquids, causing bubbles in the presence of some poisons — a belief that persisted into the 18th and 19th centuries among the royal courts of Europe.
 In Yemen, the rhino horn is used for the handles of curved daggers called jambiya. |
Now, science is now stepping in to dispel some of the mystery and fiction surrounding the use of rhino horn.
It is believed that there may be some truth behind the rhino horn’s ability to detect poisons which is linked to the composition of the horn. Rhino horns are composed largely of the protein keratin, also the chief component in hair, fingernails, and animal hooves. Many poisons are strongly alkaline (or basic), and may have reacted chemically with the keratin.
Unlike the horns of most animals, which have a bony core covered by a relatively thin layer of keratin, rhino horns are keratin all the way through — although the precise chemical composition of the keratin will vary depending on a rhino’s diet and geographic location. This fact has allowed ecologist Raj Amin of the Zoological Society of London and his colleagues to take “fingerprints” of horn samples and determine the animal populations they came from, which has helped law enforcement officials target and crack down on poaching.
Rhino horns are not, as once believed, made simply from a clump of compressed or modified hair. Recent studies by researchers at Ohio University using computerized tomography (CT) scans, have shown that the horns are, in fact, similar in structure to horses’ hooves, turtle beaks, and cockatoo bills. The studies also revealed that the centers of the horns have dense mineral deposits of calcium and melanin — a finding that may explain the curve and sharp tip of the horns. The calcium would strengthen the horn while the melanin would protect the core from being degraded by ultraviolet radiation from the sun. As the softer outer portion was worn away over time by the sun and typical rhino activities (bashing horns with other animals, or rubbing it on the ground), the inner core would be sharpened into a point (much like a wooden pencil).
Overall there isn’t much evidence to support the plethora of claims about the healing properties of the horns. In 1990, researchers at Chinese University in Hong Kong found that large doses of rhino horn extract could slightly lower fever in rats (as could extracts from Saiga antelope and water buffalo horn), but the concentration of horn given by a traditional Chinese medicine specialist are many many times lower than used in those experiments. In short, says Amin, you’d do just as well chewing on your fingernails.
Great article; thank you. I’m doing some research on African rhino conservation, and looking at the impact of the TCM market on African rhino populations. Would love to see a follow-up article: is the latest science — denying the medicinal value of rhino horn — having any impact at all on China’s (and East Asia’s) demand for the horn? Many thanks.
Thank you for publicising this often misunderstood topic. I too would love a follow-up article please on 1.whether education is reducing the use of horn in Asian potions, and 2.whether highly desirable substitues for rhino horn jambiya are being marketed?
So I cant just hammer my hair into a horn? I have to put a bone in it before hand? Bummer.
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Keep my nose out of your business!
thank you for your wonderful article it has a very good and precious information but i want to correct one thing thant the uses of Rhino Horn in Yamen to adorn the dagger (Gambia) hand is related to traditional and culture not to Muslims Men or Islam sa you mentioned . on contrary Islam as religion order us to show mercy teward all creaturs and what enhance my claim that we here in egypt are Muslim and dont deal with rhino horn . and in Yemen Christian men also have this Gambya dagger . and thank you anther time for ur precious information
I HAVE YEMEN DAGGER WITH RHINO HANDLE AND ALL SILVER SHEATH
well its quite a myth either to protect them from poaching,so why are they so expensive in the black market,as well as when governments sell them.i heard each horn could cost upto $USD50 000,someone is not telling the truth here,i hear there is some brown powder or liquid inside that they use in the manufacturing of drugs,mostly cocaine.am not sure about that,but it could be the reason why its so expensive.thanx for your article keep it up.
It is horrific that a syndicate, apparently headed by the son of a prominent SA mining magnate, as well as veterinarians and helicopter pilots, are behind the current high level of rhino poaching going on in South Africa. What can we do to diminish the demand for rhino horn? I think it is time to inform all governments that there are just no medicinal properties in rhino horn, it is a sick and outdated myth, Two days ago another cow was brutally murdered and her calf left to run around in agony for many hours. This is so sad, so repulsive that words cannot explain. For how long are we going to let these atrocities continue and the innocent suffer? Where is our morality and ethical laws that we are suppose to live by?
Wonderful article. Keep it up!
They have now slaughtered the last rhino of South Africa, letting it bleed to death.
TCM peddlers and practicioners need to be punished, severely. Go locate your nearest TCM practitioner and tell him in no uncertain terms what you think of him and his fraudulent, cruel business. Each and every TCM proponent legitimises and provides cover for the poachers. No, I don’t care if this or that one doesn’t use endangered species parts. By setting up his office, he has announced that it’s ok to make substances that have no evidence of being effective or working the way claimed by the seller simply for anecdotal, superstitious and unfounded reasons. It needs to stop, along with all the other superstitious crap that’s exploiting the gullible and harming the world.
My stepfather’s life was saved from the ravages of terminal brain cancer by the medical marvel which is crushed horn of the black rhino. Since that event, my brother who works overseas in the oilfields has managed to incrementaly smuggle in 150 lbs of this medicine so our family now has a substantial stash which brings us much comfort. Our uncle’s empheysema, which was considered in end stage, has disappeared after treatment with crushed black rhino horn so we’re now firm believers.
One problem is that zoo raised animals don’t posess the proper chemistry for healing qualities. Only rhinos taken in the wild have horns which are viable, so beware when you buy!
I have to wonder what kind of CRETIN would actually boast that they have been personally responsible for the smuggling of 150 pounds … that would account for perhaps FIFTEEN RHINO DEAD … so that your family has a stash.
I personally would not be much aggrieved if families such as yours bid a hasty farewell to this mortal coil but unfortunately that will not help the survival of the magnificent Rhinocerous.
Surely it must be possible to teach the orientals to chew their own fingernails & grind toenail clippings. Hard to believe that with all their technological prowess they still have this misplaced faith in mumbo-jumbo. Regarding Denise’s stash of horn: I fully endorse Hans’ sentiments. May they buy some poisoned horn in the future.
I think God made a mistake by creating man. I don’t think we are the crown of His creation, the animals and nature are! We only distroy everything. I don’t believe that the rhino horn can really cure all the ailments they are talking about. At the end of the day, it’s all about money, just like everything alot of humans live for. Thanks to all of you guys that really try to make a difference. And the rhino killers, you will one day have to explain to your Creator why you destroyed a magnificent animal in the name of MONEY!!!!
We entrust the safety of our national heritage in the hands of our vets and conservationists, these people have now abuse this trust and acted as if they have no answering to do. I think that there should be serious steps taken in the management of wildlife and the people involved in this field, and although the majority of conservationists do have a calling and respects their position as care takers of what belongs to all of us, there are those few that works under the cover of “conservation” to line their own pockets, and have no respect what so ever for conservation. These animals belong to ALL of us to enjoy, not to a chosen few to destroy as they wish.
Very informative article.
I am currently studying to become a field guide in South Africa and I find this poaching spree very upsetting. These are wonderfull animals and if more people could see them in the wild they would realise just how special they are.
I wish the world would wake to the fact that Rhino horn is only of use to the Rhino.
I must totally agree with Hans Ruysenaar. I was horrified to read what denise wrote. You should be ashamed of yourself!! Its people like you who are responsible for the demise of innocent animals for you own greed. What goes around comes around.
Denise you are an idiot. The power of the human mind is astounding. Rhino horn is a placebo. You and your family would probably believe me if i told you that eating your own feces cured cancer. And because you believe it, it would. Your “stash” is ridiculous and i hope you die.
The article is informative and interesting but unfortunately it will not stop the likes of Denise Stafford or any of the other idiots that having been living in a cave for most of their lives.
Maybe we should inform the world that the Stafford genitals have amazing powers and watch in amazement, firstly at the idiots that believe it and secondly, at the Staffords begging for their lives to save their prized genitalia.
Any person that is responsible for the buying or selling of rhino horn is just as guilty as the rhino murderers themselves.
I think within some couple of years Denise’s family will be dead because they have killed the last female rhino in south africa ,Now there is no more female rhino to give birth to another rhinos,so you will all rest in hell.
Ive heard through the grapevine that a whole lot of poison laced rhino horn is going to come onto the market fairly soon.–could be quite interesting!!!!!
Denise where do you live? On this planet? In a hole in the desert? I’d really like to visit you where ever you are. I want to look you in the eye, show you photos of our rhinos dying horrible deaths because of people like you and make you eat your own finger and toenails. It’s the same.
Whoah Felix lay off the TCM practitioners! In case you forgot, you live in the United States where the use of Rhino horn is strictly illegal. Also, if you run into a TCM practitioner in America, that practitioner was educated in a much more westernized system that lays to rest many of the Chinese medical myths that don’t have scientific backing. I think illegal rhino poaching is absolutely unforgivable, and I am a student of TCM at Five Branches University in California. My school does not use wild animal products, and I doubt that you will find many American TCM clinics that do. Might I also note that even in China the use of rhino horn in medicine is rarely used. Most of the poaching of these incredible animals is “trophy” pouching. Don’t attack the TCM practitioners, attack to poachers and poachers that promote this crime.
No 1 Rule in life – Respect one another. When I reed the some of your comments – I pick up disrespect – and that clouds any good debate.
I have 30 years experience in conservation in South Africa – from ranger level up to directorship. Here in South Africa is an abundance of white rhino – also privately owned not in protected areas. White rhino is not even listed as a CITES 1 species in South Africa. The CITES ban on legal trade of horn created a sustainable black market in illegal horn. The ban also secure a high black market price, because it is not available on the open – legal market. Who benefits the most out of the current CITES ban?
We have to respect the values and traditiions of all people – and if they believe in the medicinal value of a horn – respect them for that. We as western people have a lot of values that differ from the eastern – but I never read in any blog or chat room that they crisize us for it??
The solution – legal rhino horn should be available as an alternative to horns generated from unknown or poached sources.
Heard biologists have devised techniques to include substances in rhino horns that be be extremely nocive to consumers of he powdered horn (without meaningfully damaging the rhino). The risk of acquiring bone diseaeses and tumors should reduce significantly the appeal to users of Chinese medicine and Australian top models to consume rhino products.
what is the value of rhino horn.i have a piese of it which is about 250 gms.
does it make any sense.
I think I need to manufacture a synthetic horn from e.g. a keratin polymer, then gring it up and sell it to these merchants. If I can sell cheap keratin at the price or Rhino horn powder, I might be a millionaire in a year’s time. Plus I will have saved hundreds of Rhinos from an ugly death !!!
I too have had incurable disease cured by sacred horn of rhino. My father was dying of hepatitis and recieved powdered rhino horn in a liquid and was cured within 7 days. My brothers wife was in her deathbed and dom nearly die when she too was cured by crushed rhino horn. A priest in my church took rhino horn for his blindness in one eye and was able to see again. Rhino horn has magic powers and is a cure all for every affliction. Allah has granted Rhino to the peoples of the lands they inhabit as a gift for health and prosperity. Rhinos must be bred for their magical horns and have them remove without killing dem. But Rhino is a mystery cure .
Reading Denise’s and Juman’s absolute bilge makes me sick. How on earth can people believe in such hogwash in this day and age? Rhino horn, crushed or otherwise, is and will always be like hair, fingernails and toenails. So why don’t you use your own clippings instead? Get real, will you!
I’m a South African,and strongly feel it is wrong for the Orient people in the East to come kill our Southern African Animals for their simple gains,…they can come take all material things we have here but not our Animals as that’s all we have to live with and to showto the world,our pride….
hey guys do you know any museum related to rhino horn or other ancient traditions. I have a pot made of rhino horn used in worship in memories of the dead ones.it is rare and looks as ancient item to keep as in museum.
if you can please help me.
I wan to buy some Rhino horn, leg or arm uif u guy have please email me at selena@aol.com
I have heard rumors of rhino horn poisoning as well. It seems that game control rangers tranquilize native rhino and introduce a very potent type of poison into the horn material, possibly Polonium 210. Polonium 210 can cause leukemia in very small doses. Please be very careful if you are buying or using rhino horn and make sure to ask if your horn has been tested. The recent rash of leukemia deaths in southern china is potentially linked to rhino horn use, I have heard.
Selena why don’t you and get it yourself. You just think this is very funny matter? Don’t you? Wait until your loved one dies in your family and people want their body parts to buy, let’s see how funny that would be. You just like playing on people’s emotion because you know this is not funny. Let’s see if you smirk when you see your loved dying right in front of you. Remember my words and then laugh!
It is a misnomer that a rhino has to die in order to have it’s horn trimmed…many game professionals trim the horns of rhinos done to a measurable length above the base. This is done to stop rhinos doing damage to other game. It is done under aneastetic and the animal suffers no ill consequences at all.
Having said that, I see nothing wrong with horns trimmed in such a fashion being used as a source of revenue for the upkeep and promotion of proper conservation…as long as it is properly regulated. If the trade was done above board and through approved sources only, why shouldn’t countries like south africa benefit from the profits generated?
People have no objection to the selling of exotic meats like warthog or impala…here the animal actually DIES. So, why should we get on a moral high horse about the trade of rhino horns.
Obviously, I don’t approve of the illegal poaching trade where the rhino’s are killed. But, come on, culling is a reality…game parks simply cannot support beyond certain numbers of animals without detrimental effects (the same source as impala meat and warthog meat). So, if an animal has to die…why should the game park not benefit in some way to help conserve and care for other animals in their care?
Just something to think about…south africa has a nearly 70 percent unemployment rate. The government does not have enough money to care for the population that lives below the poverty line, which is why poaching occurs in the first place. Why not regulate the rhino horn trade and pump the funds back into feeding families of poachers so they don’t have to poach? And that’s the truth.
Besides…to all the ridiculous comments about “the last rhino in south africa”…there are plenty of rhino in south african game reserves…it may be an endangered species, but it is by no means extinct, so stop being ridiculous.
To Prince Mbuyiswa…it’s not people from the east coming to south africa and hunting our rhinos, it’s local people killing them and selling their horns overseas. Your statement was rather ignorant and stings of xenophobia. Besides, if you truly are south african, you know that we are a developed nation that has a lot going for it technologically…animals are not all we have “our pride”. While our game does make us a tourist destination for the international community, don’t reduce us to “the wild”. Also realise that game parks are limited as far as space and resources are concerned. If we didn’t cull or regulate populations ourselves, parks would be overrun and cease to work at an ecological level….can you imagine keeping 300 cows on a 50m by 50m piece of land? You couldn’t … There isn’t enough grazing land for all of them to survive. Parks, also, have limited borders…meaning they can only care for a limited number of animals…hence culling.
And if animals have to die, why should parks be limited by law from making some money off those animals in order to better care for others?
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Pardon my ignorance, but is it possible that Keratin is taken from Rhino horns to manufacture hair straightening products – especially the recent explosion in popularity of the Brasilian Keratin blow out that is very much in demand globally. Especially in the East and South America, as well as most image conscious women that want straight hair?
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Thanks for the article!! You know, I am a student and I got lots of information from this article for my writhing homework about black rhinos. Thank you! Thank you!
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I do not see why my last message has not been displayed, some posts on here are much worse than what I wrote. I was writing what most people concerned about this are thinking. If you actually have a reason for not putting my message on the website I would love to know it!
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thanks for such profound inforation, i would love to know more in rhinos cause in south africa tofay there is a high poaching of rhinos which in few years to come the young generation wont able ro see about them , bt they can learn about it. thanx
Do not the Yemeni men leave their daggers to another man when they die? Seems a dagger held by a previous owner is just as precious. (I am weary of men, males and their concern for their manhood.)
I think there should be Free Range Rhino farms. Remember the horn can be shaved under anaesthetic. The money gained from this should be put towards the up keep of the Rhinos and any profit should got towards a project to re-educate the cultures that prescribe them. Eventually there would be a decline in demand and the farms could close. One should remember that there’ll be no advertising, no lobbying to keep the trade going, just a simple closure. The farms could also provide training for aspiring rhino keepers, game wardens etc. Blimey, you could even charge people to volunteer to help! Changing an entire cultures way of thinking takes time.
If only I’d won the £166million! ;)
Beautiful article… I think we have to stop the hunting thing in totality
I like the above information about Rhino Horn because i am the person from Nepal where it is found in Chitwan & Bardiya national park. I touched it and saw it live…
I am sick to hear the roadshow just estimated a mans Chinese horn collection at 1 millon dollars or more. All this does is makes man kill more rhinos! They should be worthless! Anyone that buys or sells a beautiful,rare animal of natures horn, is just plan stupid! it’s sad that the things that are rare and precious, have to suffer and die because man is greedy! Man should appreciate and put a value to keep them alive. God will punish all those who’s hands are dirty. You are guilty if you take part in buying or selling these horns! Shame on the roadshow! You need to question your heart!
I am a proud South African and conservationist who has been horrified over the last few years of what human greed is capable of. Many of my fellow South Africans have lost their moral. Even though they themselves do not believe that rhino horn possesses any magical powers, they slaughter innocent animals and, steal and destroy their fellow countrymen’s natural heritage. All of it just for money. I am not talking about the really poor poeple who are sometimes used to do the dirty work on the ground, but about the highly qualified “conservationists”/farm owners/veterinarians who have a good income, but who are never satisfied, prefer living a lie and supporting the illegal trade in a product that is theoretically worthless. I challenge all my fellow South Africans who have also felt powerless and have been forced to drop their faces in shame, to stand up, stand together and help filter out these rotten apples.
As for the people who claim that rhino horn can cure cancer and do all sorts of magical things, I challenge you to take part in a proper scientific experiment where cancer patients are treated with either rhino horn or a similar synthetic product without knowing who gets which. If significantly more people is cured by the actual rhino horn, I will believe you and then we can start thinking of harvesting horn sustainably. For the Yemen people, don’t you think the current horns in your possession will have more sentimental value if they are simply carried accross from one generation to the next?
Denise Stafforrd and family are obviously not very intelligent!!!
Am i allowed to just say what a relief to get someone who actually is aware of what theyre talking about on the internet. You definitely know the way to bring an issue to light and ensure it is important. More people need to learn to read this and understand this side on the story. I cant believe youre not more popular because you definitely possess the gift.
I was totally against any form of any legal trading in rhino horn…but like everything else to humans…take the mistery out of rhino horn and do the (legal) shaving of rhino horn by proffessionals…open the market, prices will tumble and voola.. It will be impossible to protect each and every rhino in the wild…this is the only solution to this problem…funds created can go back to SaveIOurRhino-fund…I love Rhinos…they are so beautifull and to see them run in the wild is so powerfull…something needs to be done…I want to take my 4X4 vehicle and
show that to my grandchildren one day..not just pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My doctor prescribed me to chew on my finger nails to lower my fever! Yeah! Modern medicine is wonderful, isn’t it?
Obviously Denise and family are self-absorbed idiots and are of the breed of humans that I would not bother to swerve around if standing in the road and in fact would floor the accelerator as I approached them. I am concerned with the image of conservationists that have been voiced however. As in any career you have the occasional quack or bad apple but to stereotype conservationists is a dangerous trend. Most of us conservation biologists have sacrificed the American comforts of life such as reasonable salary, a home, family, as well as electricity and plumbing in many cases in order to dedicate our entire realm of life and of living to preserve and protect the magnificent species of this planet. Just please please careful not to lump us all into the hole that the few undesirables deserve to be in. Thank you and keep fighting for endangered species and their ecosystems.
I think we should all post off our finger and toe nail clippings to a central depot. At the depot the clippings are collected, softened and pressed together to make …. rhino horns.
These “man made horns” could then be sold.
obviously like your website but you need to test the spelling on several of your posts. Several of them are rife with spelling problems and I to find it very bothersome to tell the truth however I will surely come again again.
Always good to see Prussian Blue get a mention the first synthetic coordination complex, so it plays a key role in inorganic chemistry. I always demonstrate it in my inorganic reaction mechanisms course as an example of a colour caused by intervalence charge transfer. One minor quibble though in what sense is prussic acid potent’? As a poison, yes, but as an acid? It’s pretty weak as a proton donor (pKa about 9, I think).
Lets look at FACTS! considering that this article is an outline of what the horn is used for based on facts.
Firstly South Africa is in possession of 93% of the total world rhino population. Thus we are the fore runners in Rhino conservation in the world! With Africa opening its doors to the east in trade and all manner of things the criminals have also been granted the chance to just walk through our borders as they please. If we are to continue to be the forerunners of rhino conservation we need to stop the poaching of our rhinos! There are several methods of poaching rhinos! The first is a poor person gets given all the material to go and track down a rhino kill it and then sell the horn to the eastern criminals. The next is more involved and more expensive, and involves vets and helicopters and using the latest technology like night vision goggles and dart guns. At the end of the day the rhino horn ends up in the same place though the Eastern medicine market.
Next fact! Pre 2007 when we saw a dramatic increase in rhino poaching there were still rhinos poached! not many but it was still happening! about 20odd a year. Due to loopholes in the hunting legislation it has been possible for these eastern crime syndicates to enter our country and “hunt” rhino and send the horn back to the east under the premise of being a trophy, the horn then just gets ground up and sold to the medicine trade!
There are about 6 Million Chinese in china alone, and this obviously excludes Vietnam, Thailand and any other nation in the area. If one family like “denise” has a stockpile of 150lb of horn for their own use and each family in that area does the same based on the belief that the horn does in fact have medical and magical properties how many rhinos would have to be culled /hunted/ de horned/ shaved etc to be able to flood the market with horn? and thus force prices to drop? and will farming rhino (who have a gestation period of 15 months) supply enough to curb the illegal trafficking in the horn? We need to educate those that believe the horn has these properties in order for them to stop using it! apart from the fact that Denise has no problem openly admitting to using a banned substance and will openly admit that they have rhino horn in storage (also illegal) and thus admits to breaking several international laws?? These people need to know that the rhinos are disappearing!!!! and the reason why is that people are greedy and selfish. and will go to any measure to make money! There are other problem too. The first and most scary (for rhino that is) is that the Chinese government has and still is investing large sums of money into farming rhino and obtaining horns and doing tests. All of these are illegal in terms of the Cities treaty for which they have no regard. And then we still have the greedy people who are so willing to post their email addresses here to sell or buy rhino horn?
There are ways that rhinos can have the horn treated so as to make them unfit for human consumption! If intelligence and education and facts and laws are not going to work stopping people from using horns perhaps this is the only method! AND IT IS POSSIBLE!! The first step is to treat each and every horn that is stockpiled legally! Including those in museums and those that are trophies! and those stockpiled by game farmers! then start to treat captive rhino (both methods would be considerably cheaper than doing it to a live wild rhino.) Then concentrate on ALL the other rhino!! If laws dont work, pesticides will!
Zak, thank you for your valued information above. I 100% agree with you. I understand the treating of the Rhino Horn you desribe above is an excellent method of keeping a Rhino parasite free, as well as having the additional and most IMPORTANT of benfits – that is’s unfit for human consumption. I believe RHINO RESCUE PROJECT just outside Johannnesburg are undertaking this action. I have learned that it costs R20 000 for treat one Rhino, which entails: vet services to dart and tranquilsie the Rhino, treating the horn, micro-chipping the Rhino, DNA sampling of the animals and an indelible dye on the horn which shows up on scanners at airports etc. The treatment lasts for 3 – 4 years, whereafter the pesticide must be reapplied to the horn. I know that Rhino Rescue Project are desperately in need of financial assistance so they can get this done to all Rhino throughout SA.. Also, your idea of treating all stockpiles etc is superb! Thank you for your informative and valued input.
Zak that is a very good right up ,their is so much mumbo jumbo on here just canot belive some humans what they have put down ,they also need educating big time themselves South Africa is known for the game parks and the wildlife which are left to roame about freely in their enviroment ,this is what brings in the tourist to SA as we have one thing in common wildlife and the beauty of a lovely country and this is how it should be ,Tourist bring in much need revenue to keep people in their work places ,so if you think about it a poacher will sell a horn for instance to a group of people were does that money go only to the bad people to line their pockets , so the majority of the South African people get nothing ,at the end of the day the only people who do benefit are the poachers and their cronies ,And what a load of crap someone put down about their are enough white rhinos it is people like you who dont have a clue what is going on stick to your job love and go and play with your sand castle rather ..Leave the rhinos alone for the next generation to be able to see them in the wild were they belong !!
Denise is a shocking excuse for a occupant of this planet… It is so sad that ignorant fools as yourself are causing the end of existance of such amazing animals… would it be okay if some one killed you for your hair cos it was thought(as in it doesnt do a damn thing) to cure their athelets foot?? dont you think if it cures cancer that scientists would have would a way to dervive the curing extract whilst still preserving the animal??? and then no one in the world would have cancer??
How sad that the western black rhino of Africa is now officially extinct (and I assume the demand for their horns played a nasty part in this)
SPREAD the WORD especially in ASIE. RHINO HORN CAUSES INFERTILITY IN THE LONG TERM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have an idea that I would like to share with you. If we gamble on changing the beliefs of 1,6 billion Chinese, we might lose that bet. Why don’t we flood the Chinese market with counterfeit rhino horns? They should be relatively easy to make, all you need is human hair and some clever designers to make the horns look and smell like real. If supply increases, prices will drop. The Chinese would need DNA testing to the discern ‘human’ horn from real. The money we make from it could be invested in the protection of these beautiful animals.
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Very interesting and disturbing reading! Denise and Juman, very ballsy of you to appear on this forum. (Never mind, my children also believe in Santa and the tooth fairy!) Be careful when your 150lbs stash of placebo runs out and where you buy, yes… the next lot might not be as placebo’ish and might (hopefully, yes) induce vomiting and goodness knows what else, because farmers are injecting toxins into the horns. Their rhino horns which belong to them, yep. Yes Zak! Thumbs up. Please watch the film Saving Rhino Phila. Denise and Juman, no words for you really, but watch out for those leprechauns! Oh, and please don’t breed.
I have a left over portion of a Rhino Horn that was past down to me from my Ancestors, about 4-5 generaltion back. I’ve heard stories about how my Ancestors has used it to cured fever, diarrhea, infections, poisons internally & externally…etc. My Ancestors, Chinese, traveled far away from home to find better living, the Rhino Horn is their necessary medicine for their long journey, back then modern medicines were not available to them. But not we can get modern medicines averywhere, we don’t use this old fashion ways of medicines anymore. Somehow, other stories have created, and people are greedy. I strongly believe this is all about money, just like some people make weapons then created wars to sell weapons. EVEN HUMAN ARE BEING KILLED…. IT’S ALL ABOUT $$$$$$$$….. YOU KNOW !!!!!!
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They should not use rhinos horn to be used as dagger handle. Time will come we will not see rhinos in wildlife… only on movies made out of 3D. How sad.
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the people on here trying to buy and sell rhino honrs – has anyone investigated who they are?
I agree with Worried -@EDITORS- why do you leave this content posted?? Given this is a Nature and educational site, these posts and email addresses are inappropriate.
To those disgusting and stupid individuals that actually beileve that a horn has magical powers, get real.
Karma. Its coming for you.
let’s talk,
and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk……huuuuu boring.
While there is money to be made from rhino horn, there will be poaching. Legalising horn trade will only work if it is possible to flood the market, which I doubt. Economic growth in the east will not slow soon, so demand will only grow. There are billions of Chinese, Malaysians, Vietnamese, Indians and Koreans and while only a portion of these people are potential rhino horn buyers, my gut feel is that there is not enough horn to go around. Fighting poaching in the bush and in the courts is also not going to work. There are just too many of them and too many loopholes. Instead, we should think in terms of the universal equaliser – Money. How much money does South Africa stand to loose when rhino-related eco-tourism stops? How much money does these countries stand to loose if all concerned with the conservation of rhino’s boycot tourism to these destinations. I know that I will not make any of these countries an holiday destination out of protest.
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