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schema:articleBody	South African customs officials said Tuesday they had seized dozens of rhino horn pieces disguised as art and valued at about $7.0 million, at the airport in Johannesburg. Customs officials at OR Tambo International Airport "discovered 41 pieces of rhino horn valued at 115.66 million rand in a consignment declared as 'fine art'", the customs authority said in a statement. The cargo which was destined for Kuala Lumpur via Doha, was detected during a routine inspection of warehouses at the country's largest airport. Home to about 80 percent of the world's rhino population, South Africa has become the epicentre of poaching in recent years, but has seen a steady decline in numbers of rhino killed since 2014. In 2019, 594 rhino were slaughtered for their horns, down from 769 in 2018. Demand for rhino horn is primarily fuelled by consumers in Asia where it is coveted as a traditional medicine, an aphrodisiac or as a status symbol, and can fetch up to $60,000 per kilogramme. The horn is nonetheless composed mainly of keratin, the same substance as in human nails. According to the conservation organisation Traffic, criminal networks of Chinese origin operate in South Africa processing rhino horn into beads, bracelets, bangles and powder to evade detection. sn/wai
schema:headline	South Africa airport customs seize $7mn in rhino horns
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