“Criminals from Britain and beyond are openly buying and selling rhino horn online, Metro has discovered.

Middlemen in South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Guinea and here are illegally touting the horns of the endangered species for up to £160,000 to buyers in the US, Thailand and the UAE.

Some of those posting their contraband on discussion site topix.net claim to be poachers or to be in cahoots with those doing the poaching.

In a thread entitled ‘rhino horn for sale’, one person based in Equatorial Guinea wrote: ‘I am in direct contacts with Guinean hunters and they have advised to help them for selling skin animals and rhino horns.’

Another from Pretoria, South Africa, writes: ‘We are rhinoceros hunters and we currently have three horns available for sale…”

Source: Metro
By: John Higginson
To read the full article: http://metro.co.uk/2013/05/28/revealed-the-british-criminals-flagrantly-touting-illegal-rhino-horn-online-3810522/