Rhino horn: why South Africa wants to revive the international trade, and why critics fear the consequences

By Jason Gilchrist, Lecturer in the School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University

South Africa wants to expand exports of rhino hunting trophies and other wildlife products. The move relies on an exemption process within the international treaty that has largely restricted rhino horn trade since 1977.

It’s a shift that could reopen one of global conservation’s fiercest debates: does a legal trade protect endangered species – or hasten their decline?

International trade in rhino horn exports remains…

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