Conservation groups should remain resolute and say no to rhino horn trade

In South Africa, domestic trade of rhinoceros horn, forbidden since 2008, is about to become legal again. On April 7 2017, a court effectively overturned the national ban. This controversial move was welcomed by commercial rhino breeders, who argue that legalising safe, sustainable horn removal from living animals could prevent wild rhino poaching. But animal preservation groups have warned that any legal trade would have the opposite effect.

Rhinos: Global numbers rebound

Can legalised trade save Africa's last rhinos from poaching

In a rare case in Assam, poachers saw off the horn of a rhino but

Like Cocaine Minus the Risk, Rhino Horn Trade Explodes in Africa

Special investigation: Inside the deadly rhino horn trade

Why is the illicit rhino horn trade escalating?

World must resist pressure to lift ban on trade in rhino horn

Locking Horns

Rhino horn must become a socially unacceptable product in Asia

Conservation groups should remain resolute and say no to rhino

Rhino horn and conservation: to trade or not to trade, that is the