Rhino horns trafficked with impunity: report-
✅Recently global threat assessment report mentioned there has been an increase in the seizure of rhino horns after 2017.
✅Global Threat Assessment’, was presented at the meeting of the Conference of Parties organized by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
● Illegal supply chain:
✅Prolific Vietnamese & Chinese criminal networks drive the trafficking of the horns.
✅Corrupt element helps the traffickers move the horn shipments without bothering to disguise the products.
● Wildlife Justice Commission (WJC) report:
✅Supported by World Wide Fund for Nature
✅Rhino horns are most frequently smuggled on commercial airlines.
✅More than 7.5 tonnes of rhino horns were seized globally during the decade.
✅The average shipment weight increased markedly after 2017.
✅South Africa, Mozambique, Malaysia, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Vietnam, and China dominated rhino horn trafficking.
✅Vietnam is known to be the primary destination for rhino horn.
✅Horn entering Vietnam is sold to Chinese buyers & smuggled overland into China.
