ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 4月8日 03時19分

a field of white rhino, bred and farmed for their horn, at the world’s largest captive breeding operation in South Africa. The farm houses approx 1,261 rhinos, four per cent of the global population, with a breeding rate of just under 200 a year, photograph by David Chancellor @chancellordavid

Rhino dehorning is a simple 20 minute procedure that is performed by a veterinarian while the rhino is anaesthetised. The horn is removed just above the growth point, this is painless as the horn is composed mainly of keratin (the same as our fingernails) and is similar to a vet trimming a horses hoof. The horn will grow back at a rate in excess of I kg/year for males and 0.6kg/year females. As rhino live on average for 35-40 years they could effectively produce 8-10 horns in their lifetime, or about 60kg of horn.

The counter argument against the farming of rhino for horn, is that a legal trade would simply allow poached rhino horn to be passed off as legal horn, circumventing trade controls and encouraging poaching, and therefore a coexisting legal and illegal trade would wipe out rhinos even faster.

A recent study by economists at the University of Pretoria found that the demand for rhino horn is independent of price, meaning people will buy it no matter how expensive it gets. Vietnam, in particular, is driving the illicit trade. The country’s upper-middle class is booming—and people want rhino horn as a status symbol. The combination of these factors has pushed the demand to all-time high levels.
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