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					<title>Now Swaziland has submitted a proposal to CITES to legalize trade in rhino horn</title>
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					<pubDate>28 Apr 2016 18:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Environment, Global Environmental Crisis, Law Enforcement, Mammals, Poaching, Rhinos, Trade, White Rhino, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The southern African kingdom of Swaziland has filed an eleventh-hour proposal to legalize international trade in rhino horn, less than a week after South Africa abandoned a similar proposal. In the leaked proposal, which is reported to have been formally submitted to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), Swaziland officials state that [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The southern African kingdom of Swaziland has filed an eleventh-hour proposal to legalize international trade in rhino horn, less than a week after South Africa abandoned a similar proposal. In the leaked proposal, which is reported to have been formally submitted to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), Swaziland officials state that it was in fact the withdrawal of South Africa’s proposal that prompted the country to submit its own. Swaziland proposes to sell a 330-kilogram (nearly 730-pound) stockpile of horn it confiscated from poachers or collected from animals that died of natural causes. Practitioners of traditional medicine in China and Vietnam pay handsomely for rhino horn — Swaziland says its stockpile could fetch as much as $9.9 million — believing it to have curative properties, though in fact it is made from the same substance as human fingernails and has no known medicinal value. There are two rhino parks in Swaziland that house 73 white rhinos. In the proposal, the country said that it would use the proceeds from the sale of rhino horn to “ease financial pressure at a time when Swaziland’s rhino parks are struggling with the recent surge in rhino protection costs, particularly escalating security requirements to protect the country’s rhino populations against the onslaught of criminal poaching syndicates.” Swaziland also wants to harvest 20 kilograms (about 44 pounds) of rhino horn in a non-lethal manner every year, which would raise an additional $600,000 annually. Rhino horn can regenerate after being cut, and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2016/04/now-swaziland-submitted-proposal-cites-legalize-trade-rhino-horn/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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