No to fong kong horn

22 July 2016 - 08:55

By GRAEME HOSKEN

If it looks like a horn and has the properties of horn, it's rhino horn, right?

This is what a San Francisco start-up, Pembeint, wants those who buy rhino horn to believe.Pembient wants to flood the market with genetically modified rhino horn in a bid to replace the illegal wildlife trade, a $20-billion (about R284-billion) black market.

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