In Thailand seized the contraband Rhino horns worth $5 million
Moscow. March 14. INTERFAX.RU — Customs service at the airport in Bangkok intercepted smuggled consignments of Rhino horns with a total value of approximately $5 million, said on Tuesday the British television and radio Corporation “bi-Bi-si”.
About 20 horns with a total weight of almost 50 kg was found during a customs inspection two of Thai nationals arrived in Bangkok from Vietnam and Cambodia.
Women had to pick up the package, delivered to the airport from Ethiopia.
According to the International Foundation for the protection of rhinos, the population of these animals in the wild has decreased from 500 thousand individuals in the twentieth century to about 29 thousand individuals at present. This decline is associated with poaching.
As a rule, the animal often dies after the poachers deprived of his horns
In some Asian countries Rhino horn is used in traditional medicine for the treatment of various diseases from fever to cancer.