Auction house boss jailed for rhino horn smuggling
In a case that highlights the part seemingly legitimate US auction businesses can play in the illegal trafficking of wildlife products, the head of a Florida auction house ...
21 May, 2015
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US-Canada antiques link in trafficking scam
In the latest abuse of the antiques exemptions, Canadian dealer 'Tony' Guan was jailed for smuggling rhino horns, ivory and coral across the US border...
26 March, 2015 -
US charges SA hunters for illegal rhino safaris
Controversial South African hunter Dawie Groenewald and his brother, Janneman, charged in the US with fraudulently hunting 'problem' rhinos and laundering the horns on the black ma...
24 October, 2014 -
5-year sentence for US rhino horn courier
Another link in an international rhino horn and ivory trafficking ring between the US and China has been removed. Courier Ning Qiu admitted he sold raw rhinos horns worth about $3-...
25 June, 2014 -
United States grows as hub in global rhino horn smuggling
Rhino horn smugglers in the US hide behind an exception for trade in antiques that are over 100 years old. Oxpeckers tracked down some of the prime suspects abusing this law to smu...
10 October, 2013
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