Scientists Created Fake Rhino Horn. But Should We Use It?

Scientists Created Fake Rhino Horn. But Should We Use It?

Experts are divided over whether flooding the Asian market with convincing artificial rhino horn would help or hurt rhinos’ survival.

In Africa, 892 rhinos were poached for their horns in 2018, down from a high of 1,349 killed in 2015. The decline in deaths is encouraging, but conservationists agree that poaching still poses a dire threat to Africa’s rhino population, which hovers around 24,500 animals.
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