Rhino Horn Lecture 1
Rhino poaching has escalated in recent years and is being driven by the demand for rhino horn in asian countries, particularly Vietnam. It is used in Traditional Chinese Medicine but more and more commonly now it is used as a status symbol to display someone’s success and wealth. As South African is home to the majority of rhinos in the world it is being heavily targeted by poachers.
The scarcity of rhinos today price higher, and pressure on the declining rhino populations. For people whose annual income is often far below the subsistence level, the opportunity to change one’s life by killing an animal that they don’t value is overwhelming.
Poachers are now being supplied by international criminal gangs with sophisticated equipment to track and kill rhinos. Often they use a gun to bring the rhino down and hack of its horn leaving the rhino to wake up and bleed to death very painfully and slowly. Poachers are also often armed with guns making them very dangerous for the anti-poaching teams who put their lives on the line to protect rhinos.
What is rhino horn?
Rhino horns are similar in structure to horses’ hooves, turtle beaks, our hairs. They are made of keratin – in rhinoceros horn it is contain chemically complex
The cause
Porous (lỗ thủng) border
Demand&suppy (buyers&consumers)create global consumption
Traditional Chinese Medicine
According to traditional Chinese texts, rhino horn has been used in Chinese medicine for more than 2000 and is used to treat fever, gout, cure snakebites, hallucinations, headaches, vomiting, food poisoning, and “devil possession.”
Rhino horn, is shaved or ground into a powder and dissolved in boiling water and consumed by the patient. Rhino horn doesn’t have any medicinal benefit whatsoever, but it is a testimony to the power of tradition that millions of people believe that it does. Of course, if people want to believe in prayer, there is no reason why they shouldn’t, but if animals are being killed to provide medicine that
The scarcity of rhinos today price higher, and pressure on the declining rhino populations. For people whose annual income is often far below the subsistence level, the opportunity to change one’s life by killing an animal that they don’t value is overwhelming.
Poachers are now being supplied by international criminal gangs with sophisticated equipment to track and kill rhinos. Often they use a gun to bring the rhino down and hack of its horn leaving the rhino to wake up and bleed to death very painfully and slowly. Poachers are also often armed with guns making them very dangerous for the anti-poaching teams who put their lives on the line to protect rhinos.
What is rhino horn?
Rhino horns are similar in structure to horses’ hooves, turtle beaks, our hairs. They are made of keratin – in rhinoceros horn it is contain chemically complex
The cause
Porous (lỗ thủng) border
Demand&suppy (buyers&consumers)create global consumption
Traditional Chinese Medicine
According to traditional Chinese texts, rhino horn has been used in Chinese medicine for more than 2000 and is used to treat fever, gout, cure snakebites, hallucinations, headaches, vomiting, food poisoning, and “devil possession.”
Rhino horn, is shaved or ground into a powder and dissolved in boiling water and consumed by the patient. Rhino horn doesn’t have any medicinal benefit whatsoever, but it is a testimony to the power of tradition that millions of people believe that it does. Of course, if people want to believe in prayer, there is no reason why they shouldn’t, but if animals are being killed to provide medicine that