Article 6T6QV ‘We have to change our attitude’: wildlife expert says rhino horn trade must be legalised

‘We have to change our attitude’: wildlife expert says rhino horn trade must be legalised

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Robin McKie Science editor
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Call for illicit market to be taken out of hands of criminals as numbers continue to fall drastically due to poaching

International trade in rhino horns should be legalised, a leading wildlife expert has urged.

Writing in the research journal Science, Martin Wikelski argues only carefully monitored, legitimate transactions in horns can save the world's remaining species of rhinoceros.

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