![]() ![]() It is this market price that puts wild rhinos at terrible risk. It commands a price higher than cocaine or gold. The value of rhino horn on the black market is said to be as high as $100,000 per kilogram, making it one of the most expensive commodities in the world. Dehorning a rhino is a desperate attempt to save the species by removing the incentive to poach. ![]() Amos Tembe, the conservation manager, had decided, for the first time in the reserve’s history, to dehorn its remaining population of rhinos. I am standing knee-deep in thorny bushes at Ndumo Nature Reserve, on the northeastern border of South Africa, bordering Mozambique. But it is not a tree that is being felled. The sound of a chainsaw rises discordantly above all natural sounds, disrupting the quiet of a warm African winter day, a destructive sound at odds with the African wilderness. ![]() In the Ndumo Nature Reserve in South Africa, a team dehorns a rhino, part of a desperate attempt to save the species from poaching. ![]()
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