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Sotheby's and Bonhams Bow To Pressure, Ban The Sale of Rhino Horn Artifacts

6:42pm November 26, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

Both companies announced they are canceling separate auctions featuring antique carvings made of the endangered species' horns. The sales would have taken place in Hong Kong this week.

Bradley Martin is seen here in 1993 inspecting confiscated rhino horns, elephant tusks and ivory objects at the Taipei Zoo, in his role as a United Nations special envoy on rhino conservation.

Prominent Ivory Trade Investigator Found Stabbed To Death In Kenya

2:51pm February 05, 2018

by Laurel Wamsley

Esmond Bradley Martin's innovative work as a conservationist and investigator made him one of the global authorities on elephant and rhino poaching. He was found at home with stab wounds to his neck.

South Africa's highest court has overturned a national ban on domestic sales of rhinoceros horns. Here, rhinos are seen at a breeding farm near Klerksdorp, South Africa.

Rhino Horns Are Legal To Sell, South African Court Rules

12:01pm April 06, 2017

by Bill Chappell

The decision follows years of legal wrangling over the ban on domestic sales of rhinoceros horn that was enacted in 2009.

Three rhinos line up at the Welgevonden Game Reserve on Wednesday in South Africa's Limpopo province.

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South Africa Considers Legalizing Domestic Rhino Horn Trade

3:01pm March 13, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

Conservationists are sounding the alarm over a South African proposal that would legalize and regulate the domestic trade of rhinoceros horn, as well as allow some limited exports.

Poachers killed this black rhinoceros for its horn with high-caliber bullets at a water hole in South Africa's Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park. They entered the park illegally, likely from a nearby village, and are thought to have used a silenced hunting rifle. Bl

Rhino Horn: The Most Valuable Appendage In Illegal Wildlife Trade

5:57pm October 06, 2016

by NPR Staff

Journalist Bryan Christy estimates the wholesale market for rhino horn is a quarter of a billion dollars. Customers think the horn has healing powers. Criminal syndicates take the money.

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