article_snippet: There is a high demand for poaching rhino horns, since rhino horns are used as traditional Asian medicine in China and Vietnam.
article_snippet: rhino horns can fetch as much as $50,000 per kilogram on the black market.
article_snippet: Poachers’ attempts to retrieve rhino horns have hit news headlines, with some efforts leaving behind gruesome pictures of rhinos bleeding to death.
article_snippet: If the poaching continues, estimates by rhinosurvival.org say the rhino will be extinct by 2025.
article_snippet: Humane Society of the United States chief executive Wayne Pacelle said the federal agency is sending a 'mixed message,' noting rhino poaching is on the rise.
article_snippet: Environmentalists say numerous dead animals are already being hunted for numerous dead animals prized horns, and that allowing numerous dead animals to be hunted is wrong. '
article_snippet: Kill it to save it is counterintuitive and flawed logic,' said Jeff Flocken, the North American regional director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare. '
article_snippet: The fact that some Americans are showing some Americans will pay any price to kill one of the last black rhinos is not going to help the species in the long run but only continue to put a price on a price head.'