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Thai airport officials linked to rhino trade
Thai authorities said Tuesday they would seek arrest warrants for three police officers allegedly involved in trafficking rhino horn through Bangkok’s main airport. The horn was brought into Suvarnabhumi Airport in January by Vietnamese migrant workers paid $500 per trip, said Narasak Hemnithi, commander of the Natural Resources Environmental Crime…
Scientists: Legalize horn sales to save endangered rhinoceroses
In order to save the perilously endangered rhinoceros, sales of its horns should be legalized, four leading environmental scientists said Thursday in the influential journal “Science.” “As committed environmentalists we don’t like the idea of a legal trade any more than does the average member of the concerned public,” wrote…
Mozambique customs arrest rhino horn smuggler
Mozambican police have arrested a Vietnamese man at the main airport in Maputo as he tried to smuggle rhino horns out of the country, a spokesman said Thursday. The man was arrested on Wednesday as he was about to board a Kenya Airways flight to Hanoi via Bangkok. “Inside the…
Hong Kong seizes record haul of rhino horns
Hong Kong Customs officers have seized a record haul of 33 rhino horns along with ivory chopsticks and bracelets hidden inside a container shipped from South Africa, officials said on Tuesday. Officers found the horns along with 758 ivory chopsticks and 127 ivory bracelets in a haul worth a total…
Rhino poaching surges on S. African wildlife reserves
The giant rhino slumps to the ground with haunting cries as it fights for its life, a bloodied, fleshy pulp in the place where poachers sawed off its horn. The critically injured male is one of the latest victims in South Africa’s rhino bloodbath, which is surging on privately owned…
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