rhino horn

Ground up and added to liquids, rhino horn has been used for millennia in traditional Asian medicine to treat fevers and other ailments.

China is now the primary market for tiger bone, rhino horn, elephant ivory, live snakes, pangolins and a whole host of wildlife products.

Rodrigues said that Zimbabwe's trade links with China, where the rhino horn is highly prized as medicinal, are a driving factor.

This is the ultimate wake-up call for the Vietnamese government to turn aggressively on its internal rhino horn market.

Rhino horn has been used in traditional medicine in China and Vietnam for centuries.

Yet rhino horn is currently worth more than gold, selling for up to $60, 000 a kilo.

They told me they were produced before the State Council banned all trade in tiger and rhino horn products in 1993 and are therefore legal.

Martin says Chinese buy rhino horn to use as a traditional medicine to lower fever.

A rhino horn can sell for thousands of pounds on the black market.

A big shipment of ivory seized in Bangkok last month is believed to have included rhino horn.

A middleman collects tiger bones or rhino horn from poachers in India.

Every year there are over 400 cases of illegal hunting on Rhinos, the value of the Rhino horn has exceeded Gold in international markets.

The Vietnamese are moving rhino horn from Africa.

Yemenis rapidly became the world's biggest importers of rhino horn.

Last year a Vietnamese diplomat was caught on camera taking delivery of contraband rhino horn outside the Vietnamese embassy in Pretoria.

With the Chinese economy "growing at 9 to 10 percent, now average Chinese can afford to buy rhino horn, " he adds.

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