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Scientists inject radioactive material into live rhino horns to make them easier to detect at border posts.
South Africa is home to a large majority of the world's rhinos and as such is a hot spot for poaching driven by demand from Asia , where horns are used in traditional medicine for their supposed therapeutic effect.
In February the environment ministry said that, despite government efforts to tackle the illicit trade, 499 of the giant mammals were killed in 2023 .
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