The use of rhino horn in traditional Asian medicine is known to have significantly contributed to poaching and the illegal international trade of the valuable commodity.

According to ‘Save the Rhino’ two and a half rhinos are killed in Africa by poachers every day.

There are hopes a highly convincing artificial rhino horn made by researchers from the University of Oxford and Fudan University in Shanghai will destroy the trade and illegal poaching.

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Professor Fritz Vollrath, Zoologist at the University of Oxford