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August 13th, 2013 
Peter Nolan
Poaching has risen sharply in Africa in recent years. Besides targeting
rhinos, whole
herds of elephants have been massacred for their ivory.
The lucrative Asian black market for rhino horn has driven a boom in poaching
across Africa.
Asian consumers falsely believe the horns, the same composition as
fingernails, have powerful healing properties.
A series of large shipments of ivory has been seized in recent months,
including two separate containers in Kenya’s port of Mombasa in July, one
with three tons and another of almost 1.5 tons of elephant ivory.
Edited for telegraph.co.uk by Rob Crilly
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