![]() ![]() Roberts explains, however, that South Africa banned Vietnamese hunters in 2012 from their legal rhino hunt program because the Vietnamese hunters were selling the horn that was only approved to be imported to Vietnam as a “trophy horn.” When the Vietnamese hunters were banned, poachers were organized by crime syndicates to supply the horn for the illegal trade of rhino horn in Vietnam and China (Roberts, 2014). The shop owner himself claimed he had killed the rhino in South Africa, and the sale was perfectly legal. The man showed her a large piece of rhino horn, and told her it will be a good cure for hangover. She visited another shop, in which the owner claimed he was a traditional medicine doctor, and she requested a hangover cure. ![]() The price was $6,000 for 100 grams (3.5 ounces). She was able to return alone later, and after telling one shop owner that she had a sick husband, he agreed to sell her rhino horn, and told her that “it has an 85-to-90% success rate” in curing cancer. In her first attempts, she was accompanied by a government appointed “minder,” and she was told by shopkeepers that rhino horn was illegal and not available to purchase. Sue Lloyd Roberts of the BBC visited Hanoi in 2014 to investigate the rhino horn trade. ![]()
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