Two experts discuss whether there should be a legal trade in rhinoceros horn. Join the debate and add your comments, too
Yes says Michael Eustace, co-founder, African Parks
There were 60,000 rhinoceroses in Africa in 1970. That number should have grown to 600,000, but today there are only 25,000. Over the past 40 years, tens of thousands of rhinos have been poached. Although well-intentioned, the 1977 ban on horn trade by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has been a miserable failure. The ban has done nothing to stop the illegal trade, it has made criminals rich and it has left the parks impoverished.
South Africa has done a wonderful job in growing its rhino population, from about 100