San Diego Zoo
By AFP, Seeker.com, September 9, 2016
The high-profile destruction of $1 million worth of horns aims to bring attention to the plight the animals face because of poachers.
Rhino horns worth around $1 million were to be burned on Thursday at the San Diego Zoo in a bid to raise awareness about the endangered species decimated by poachers.
“This rhino horn burn sends the message to criminal networks and to rhino horn buyers that the United States will not tolerate illegal trade in rhino horn,” Susie Ellis, the head of the International Rhino Foundation, said in a statement.
