Are rhino horns from Kaziranga taken to Vietnam?

Poachers killing rhinos at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam might go for a massacre if they replicate the plight of African rhinos, whose horns are costlier than gold in Vietnam. “We are in the midst of a rhino poaching crisis,” Mark Jones, a British veterinarian who heads the London-based Humane Society International told Al Jazeera. Explaining how expensive these rhino horns are, Jones put is as “more than gold, gram for gram”. An individual horn can fetch up to $150,000, Al Jazeera reported. However, TRAFFIC and World Wildlife Fund, have come together in the South East Asian nation to spread awareness against this inhuman trend and save the rare animal from extinction. “To understand what wildlife protection groups are up against, one need only take a stroll through Hanoi’s famed Old Quarter, a colourful network of 36 streets where crafts and local products have been hawked for centuries. Here, shops specialising in traditional Chinese medicine attract scores of customers seeking remedies made from wild animal parts, including rhino horn”— Al Jazeera reported. The organisations will soon start a poster campaign in offices, apartment buildings and airports in major Vietnamese cities like Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to stop this illegal trade.