In Vietnam, which represents a burgeoning market for illegal rhino horn, it is viewed as a hangover cure and has been promoted as an effective treatment for cancer. But as rhino horns are entirely ...

Fingernail doesn’t cure cancer." Rhino horn is also drunk by some Vietnamese businessmen as a hangover cure." "It’s a social pleasure," says researcher Hoai Nam Dang Vu as he demonstrates how ...

Angola, for instance, “reported seizing 58 kg [128 pounds] of rhino horn from 2018 to 2024, but did not share any samples for forensic analysis,” Tench added.

According to that report the Vietnam Embassy in Pretoria “has been repeatedly implicated in illicit rhino horn trade”. TRAFFIC reported that the involvement of embassy personnel first came to ...

"When I interview rhino horn consumers, many of them think that rhino horn can help to reduce a hangover ... Vietnamese medicine, similar to in China. But for some, it’s also seen as a cure ...

Although a number of Vietnamese doctors I spoke with said rhino horn was not an effective cure for anything ... the horn as a health supplement and hangover preventive, paying $18,000 for about ...

Vietnamese citizens are being encouraged to stop buying or consuming rhino horn through a series of advertisements developed by WWF and TRAFFIC as part of their campaign against Illegal Wildlife Trade ...

Vietnam's apparent reluctance ... trace the exact origin of horns smuggled illegally to the Southeast Asian nation recognised as a primary driver of the rhino poaching crisis.

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa and Vietnam are set to sign a landmark deal to help stem rhino poaching and the illicit trade in rhino horns, activists and a government official said Monday. Illegal ...

Two Vietnamese men convicted of attempting to smuggle rhino horns out of South Africa were sentenced last week to the longest prison terms possible under the country’s national wildlife law. The men ...