Rhino horns in demand
This picture taken on April 12, 2012 shows a woman grinding a rhino horn on a ceramic plate to get rhino horn powder at her home in Hanoi. – Photo by AFP.
A file photo taken on March 12, 2012 shows two white rhinos in Limpopo near the new site of a rhinoceros orphanage yet to be built. – Photo by AFP.
This file photo taken on August 22, 2011 shows Searl Derman, Aquila Game Reserve's owner (L) trying to cover the eyes of a badly injured white rhino while veterinarian, Doempies Trichardt (R) injects the animal with sedative after poachers sawed off its horn on Aquila Game Reserve in Touws River, some 180 Km North of Cape Town. – Photo by AFP.
This file photo taken on August 22, 2011 shows a a badly injured white rhino lying in a hollow with a drip set up by a veterinarian into its ears to give him water and medication, on Aquila Game Reserve in Touws River, some 180 Km North of Cape Town after poachers sawed off its horn. – Photo by AFP.
An young boys runs out a traditional medicine shop in Lan Ong street which sells grinding plates for rhino horns in downtown Hanoi on April 24, 2012 . – Photo by AFP.
A man shows how to use the ceramic grinding plate with a piece of rhino horn in Hanoi on April 24, 2012. – Photo by AFP.
