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The trouble with using synthetic rhino horn to stop poaching

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imageWill synthetic rhino horns decrease demand or aid law enforcement?David W Cerny/Reuters

In 2014, one rhino was killed every eight hours. That was in South Africa alone, where most of the world’s rhinos live. At this rate, rhino deaths may overtake births by 2016-2018, making the concept of the rhino’s extinction very real.

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