What is a rhino in the wild really worth? - The Washington Post
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What is a rhino in the wild really worth?
By Michael Gerson
October 12 at 7:29 PM
In Africa, the average cost of an AK-47 is a little over $300. A single rhinoceros horn — reputed (falsely) in Asia to have cancer-healing properties — can bring $300,000 on the black market. So a criminal gang or a terrorist group knows what a dead rhino is worth: several hundred assault rifles (less the commission owed middlemen). Al-Shabab, the Somali terrorist group behind the Westgate mall attack in Kenya, uses poached ivory to fund its operations.
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