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 home to nearly 80% to the world's Rhinoceros but it has also become a hotspot for Rhino poaching. In recent months, South African National Park employees have been involved in alleged criminal activities including poaching of animals.

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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.

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