Human stupidity

Carly Nairn travels from southern Africa to Vietnam in a story on the plight of the world's rhinos, and considers whether domestication, and dehorning, of the animals is its own kind of conservation. Interviewing nonprofit interns, wildlife veterinarians, and private ranchers, Nairn wonders how the pachyderms might be saved amid habitat destruction, rampant poaching, and the seemingly unstoppable appetite for rhino horn.

Rico says the only market for rhino horn is with ridiculously wealthy Arabs, who covet it for handles for their belt knives. Shy of exterminating them, rather than the rhinos (a solution that gets Rico's vote) maybe some bright young thing can come up with a synthetic that fools even them...