South Africa's new medical tourism plan worries wildlife conservationists as it proposes allowing tourists to use rhino horn powder within the country's borders. It is part of a wider strategy to extract more economic value from the country’s rich wildlife and benefit black communities. Conservation experts are worried about such a plan as poaching and hunting has already made the African rhino an endangered species.

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South Africa is considering to sell powdered rhino horn to "health tourists" from Asia in a bid to guard biodiversity, create jobs and boost economic growth as well as give a financial dividend to the historically white-dominated wildlife and conservation sectors.

South Africa considers selling Rhino horn to Asian tourists amid ecological concerns

Singaporean authorities have made their largest-ever rhino horn capture with a US $830,000 haul seized from a smuggler arriving from South Africa on Wednesday. Twenty pieces of horn, totalling 34 kilogrammes (75 pounds), were reportedly found in two pieces of luggage on Tuesday at Singapore Changi Airport, according to the city-National state's Parks Board.

Singapore makes biggest ever seizure of rhino horn worth US$830,000

For the first time, a non-fungible token (NFT) of a Rhino’s horn was sold at an auction in South Africa in a bid to raise money to protect real rhinos. According to reports, a Cape Town businessman paid 105,000 rands (US $6,850) for the digital horn, which he plans to place into a trust for his children.

In a first, Rhino horn NFT sold for $7,000 at auction in South Africa

Looking after an orphaned baby rhino is hard work: you feed them bottled milk at all hours, comfort them through constant fear and bereavement and endure long nights of screaming for the absent mother they witnessed being shot dead by poachers.

South Africans volunteer to keep rhino orphanage going during lockdown

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