{"id":10302,"date":"2012-04-26T16:32:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/africa-money-legalising-rhino-horn-ivory-trade-in-focus\/"},"modified":"2012-04-26T16:32:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:32:29","slug":"africa-money-legalising-rhino-horn-ivory-trade-in-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/africa-money-legalising-rhino-horn-ivory-trade-in-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"AFRICA MONEY-Legalising rhino horn, ivory trade in focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Rhino horn now worth more than gold<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Trade may be worth $234 million a year<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Asian demand turbo-charged by economic growth<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Stoddard<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, April 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Almost two rhinos a day<br \/>\nare being poached in South Africa for their horns, which are<br \/>\nworth more than their weight in gold.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This surge in rhino killings has coincided with a rise in<br \/>\nelephant poaching for ivory across the continent and reignited<br \/>\ndebate about whether or not the trade in the commodities these<br \/>\nanimals are being killed for should be opened up.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The questions raised are not just ethical or ecological but<br \/>\nalso economic, and we are not talking small change.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Take rhino horn, which now has a street value of $65,000 a<br \/>\nkg, making it more valuable than gold, platinum or cocaine.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Used to treat a range of ailments in China and southeast<br \/>\nAsia, its demand has rocketed in tandem with the region&#8217;s<br \/>\nblistering economic growth and appetite for other commodities.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Rhino horn now worth more than gold * Trade may be worth $234 million a year * Asian demand turbo-charged by economic growth By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG, April 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Almost two rhinos a day are being poached in South Africa for their horns, which are worth more than their weight in gold. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}