Building synthetic rhino horn in the lab is neither simple nor cheap, however, compared to the real thing it is. Wild horn on the black market can cost anywhere between $30,000 and $100,000 per kg.

African giant pouched rats were trained to detect illegally trafficked wildlife products, offering a new solution to combat ...

The idea here isn’t to affix fake horns to rhinos, of course, but rather to flood the black market with copies of horns that are so close to the real thing that nobody will know one from the other.

The illegal trade of powdered rhino horn reaches astronomical figures on the black market, and poaching of rhinos in Africa ...

"Ultimately, the aim is to try to devalue rhinoceros horn in the eyes of the end users ... being the most valuable false commodity in the black-market trade, with a higher value even than gold ...

At the bloody heart of this conflict is the rhino's horn, a prized ingredient in traditional Asian medicines. Though black market prices vary widely, as of last fall dealers in Vietnam quoted ...

The lead investigator told BBC News the trade in rhino horn was now "morphing" into a market for luxury items. At least 7,100 rhinos are estimated to have been killed in Africa since 2007.

African giant pouched rats can be trained to sniff out trafficked wildlife products, ranging from rhino horns and elephant ivory to pangolin scales and African blackwood, according to a new paper ...

Rats could be the latest weapon deployed in the fight against endangered wildlife trafficking, according to a study of ...

African giant pouched rats have been trained by scientists to recognise the scent of illegal animal products such as rhino horn and ... bodies for sale on the black market. Many parts of Asia ...