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WORLD WILDLIFE FUND

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Poaching, driven by consumer demand for rhino horn primarily in Asia, poses the biggest threat to rhinos. Most of these horns find their way into the illegal market in Vietnam, where criminal networks grind up the horns for use in traditional medicines or sell them as a high-value gift item. China is an important consumer market as well, where rhino horn enters art and antique markets and is sometimes acquired as an investment purchase.

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The scarcity of rhinos today and the corresponding intermittent availability of rhino horn only drives the price of horn higher and higher, intensifying pressure on declining rhino populations. For people whose annual income is often far below the subsistence level, the opportunity to change one’s life by killing an animal that they don’t value is overwhelming.

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There are five species of rhinoceros worldwide; greater one-horned, white, black, Sumatran and Javan. Rhinoceros are found throughout Africa and Asia, although populations are declining across both continents. The largest populations of African rhinoceros can be found in South Africa and Asian rhinoceros in India.