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Affluent Vietnamese driving rhino horn poaching in South Africa, report warns [1]

Conspicuous consumption from a growing middle class in Vietnam is driving the catastrophic poaching of rhino horns in South Africa, conservationists warned on Monday.

Publication Date: 
23/07/2012
Guardian (UK) [2]
Tags:
Vietnam [3], Poaching [4], Illegal Trade [5], Wildlife [6], South Africa [7], WWF [8], Endangered Species [9], Rhinoceros [10], Africa [11], CITES [12]

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/guardian-uk
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/vietnam
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/poaching
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/illegal-trade
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wildlife
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/south-africa
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wwf
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/endangered-species
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rhinoceros
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/africa
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cites