Could lab-grown rhino horns actually stop poaching? We may never know When a group of startups set out to solve an age-old problem with new technology, they met unexpected resistance from ...

Rhinoceros horns are more expensive than gold or cocaine. Fox News Media; ... Pembient is partnering with one of Beijing’s largest brewers to create a beer brewed with the faux rhino horn powder.

A company started manufacturing fake rhino horns in 2015 to stop the illegal poaching of the animal. ... That powder is then manufactured and shaped into a horn with 3D-printing techniques.

Meanwhile, the removal of rhino horn powder from traditional Chinese pharmacopeia in the 1990s had largely doused demand. In the early 1990s, for instance, horns sold for only $250-500/kg (pdf, p.85).

When Marais approaches the unconscious rhino, he covers its eyes to protect them and then uses a chainsaw to cut off its ...

"It is better than the impacts of poaching." Officials discover unconventional solution to prevent rhino poaching: 'We might ...

Rhino horns may be the key to saving the endangered species from a potentially fatal condition: iron overload disorder. ... Donelan turns horn samples into powder and extracts the DNA.

When a group of startups set out to solve an age-old problem with new technology, they met unexpected resistance from conservationists who saw the idea as misguided at best — and dangerous at worst.

It was 2011 when Hoang, a Vietnamese American, first learned about rhino horn poaching. ... Early complaints centered on his initial idea of producing synthetic rhino horn powder.

Engineered rhino horns, to many conservationists, ... After college, the Hoang brothers struggled to convince merchants that their synthetic horn powder trumped the real thing, ...