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34kg of rhino horns seized at Noi Bai airport

Competent agencies on October 12 seized nearly 34kg of rhino horns at Hanoi-based Noi Bai International Airport.
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Hanoi (VNA) - Competent agencies onOctober 12 seized nearly 34kg of rhino horns at Hanoi-based Noi BaiInternational Airport. 

The amount of rhino horns was shipped by a sender in South Africa on a QatarAirways flight to an individual in Hanoi’s outskirts district of Soc Son, andarrived at the airport on October 4.  

On September 2, customs officers of the airport also found nearly one tonne ofelephant tusks, ivory products and pangolin scales transported fromNigeria. 

The products were hidden in 24 boxes sent by twocompanies based in Nigeria to two companies in Hanoi’s outskirt district of SocSon through Turkish Airlines on September 21. 

There are only 25,000 wild rhinos in the worldat present, with the population dropping by 95 percent over the last fourdecades. South Africa is home to some 20,000 rhinos, or 80 percent of thetotal.

Poaching is attributed to rising demand forrhino horns in some Asian countries, including Vietnam, since many people inthese nations believe that rhino horns can cure illness, a claim notcorroborated by science.

Conservationists have warned that rhinos willbecome extinct within the next 10 years if poaching is not stopped. The lastJava rhino in Vietnam was killed at Cat Tien National Park in 2010.-VNA
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