{"id":21411,"date":"2015-11-26T07:16:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T07:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/south-africa-lifts-ban-on-domestic-rhino-horn\/"},"modified":"2015-11-26T07:15:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T07:15:43","slug":"south-africa-lifts-ban-on-domestic-rhino-horn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/south-africa-lifts-ban-on-domestic-rhino-horn\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa lifts ban on domestic rhino horn trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

{A South Africa court has lifted a ban on the domestic trade in rhino horns in a case brought by two game farm breeders.}<\/p>\n

It overturns a moratorium on the trade imposed by the government in 2009 to address rhino poaching.<\/p>\n

One of the breeders, John Hume, blamed a sharp increase in rhino poaching on the ban.<\/p>\n

Last year, a record 1,215 rhinos were killed in South Africa, where 80% of the world’s rhino population lives.<\/p>\n

The court heard that rhino horns sells for $65,000 (\u00a343,000) per kg on the Asian black market where it is believed to have medicinal properties.<\/p>\n

Africa Live: BBC news updates<\/p>\n

Mr Hume brought the case along with a colleague Johan Kruger, arguing that it was their constitutional right as breeders to sell rhino horns.<\/p>\n

He farms in the area south of the Kruger National Park and is the largest rhino farmer in the world.<\/p>\n

He had argued that if the ban was not lifted he would have been forced to dispose of his 1,200-strong herd as it cost him 5m rand ($351; \u00a3233) a month to preserve it.<\/p>\n

In his ruling Judge Francis Legodi said it could not be denied that the ban was linked to a surge in demand.<\/p>\n

The lifting of the ban comes ahead of a meeting in Johannesburg next year of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites), which is expected to discuss lifting the global ban.<\/p>\n

The government says it has not yet decided whether to appeal the decision.<\/p>\n

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SOURCE:BBC:[South Africa lifts ban on domestic rhino horn trade->http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-34914154]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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