South Africa makes it legal to sell rhino horns

Mongabay
Apr 6, 2017, 5:31 pm178 pts
A top court in South Africa just made it legal to trade in rhino horns within the country. The South African government, in 2009, imposed a moratorium that banned domestic trade in rhino horns. But after years of legal battle between commercial rhino breeders and the government’s Department of Environmental…

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