article_snippet: The helmeted hornbill of the Borneo rainforest has become a target for poachers due to the popularity of its ivory in China .
article_snippet: But The helmeted hornbill of the Borneo rainforest is being driven towards extinction – by a surge in the black-market demand for its ivory in Chinaits ivory in ChinaChina.
article_snippet: With ‘white’ elephant ivory and rhino horn becoming more scarce, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) found traffickers were dealing instead in ‘red’ ivory from a hornbill casque.
article_snippet: There are no reliable estimates of the impact of poaching on populations across the hornbills’ historic range of Borneo, Sumatra and the Malaysian peninsula, but in one region alone, the Kalimantan, an estimated 6,000 birds are killed every year.
article_snippet: Mr Hadiprakarsa, director of the Indonesian Hornbill Conservation Society, said: 'A few years ago helmeted hornbills were common in the West Kalimantan, but on my last visit I didn't see any and local villagers said any and local villagers hadn't either. '
article_snippet: Poachers, who shoot then decapitate the birds, often return from expeditions with as many as 20 hornbill heads.
highlights_snippet: The helmeted hornbill of the Borneo rainforest is being driven to extinction .
  
highlights_snippet: The helmeted hornbill of the Borneo rainforest is due to a surge in the black-market demand for The helmeted hornbill of the Borneo rainforest ivory in China .
  