White rhinos have two horns, the foremost more prominent than the other. Rhino horns grow as much as three inches a year, and have been known to grow up to five feet long. Females use their horns ...

The horns can reportedly be worth more in weight ... three species of rhino remain critically endangered, and while white ...

Poaching for their horns is one of the biggest threats to white rhinos. Their horns are in demand in Asia, primarily in Vietnam and China, for use in traditional medicines and for artistic carvings.

Poaching was fuelled by demand for rhino horn for use in traditional Chinese medicine, and for dagger handles in Yemen. The last few dozen wild northern white rhinos in the Democratic Republic of ...

“These higher-level arrests and convictions are critical to disrupting the illegal trade chains used to move rhino horns into illicit markets in Asia”. Lemtongthai played a principal role in a ...

By 1900, the white rhino had been reduced from an estimated ... Largely, rhinos are poached for the demand for rhino horn in China, Vietnam and Laos. “We were doing really well,” says Ives.

The horn, belonging to a white rhino from Africa, weighs 5 kilograms and measures 40 to 50 centimeters in length, said city officials. The Washington Convention prohibits the international trade ...

Improved economic performance in parts of Asia is driving up demand for rhino horn, but one Seattle-based start-up hopes to save the endangered animal by creating synthetic alternatives Ivory tusks, ...

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and some rhinos only have one horn. The largest rhino species, the white rhino, can grow to be 12-13 feet long and 5-6 feet ...

Of all the rhino species, northern white rhinos are the hardest hit ... The hugely profitable black-market rhino horn trade - and the demand comes from East Asia, where powdered rhino horn ...