The horn is also valued in North Africa and the Middle East as an ornamental dagger handle. The black rhino once roamed most of sub-Saharan Africa, but today is on the verge of extinction due to ...

The western black rhino was declared extinct in 2011 ... Poachers are tempted primarily by Asian demand for rhino horn and its supposed medicinal qualities. Poachers take the horn and leave ...

Pembient hopes to thwart poachers by flooding the market with synthetic horns containing real rhino ... and four out of five rhinoceros species are classified as vulnerable or critically endangered.