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Rhino Horns Stolen

April 22, 2014 by  

Rhino Horns Stolen, Rhino horn stock piles worth over $5.2 million have been stolen from a South African game park office, the raided tourist agency said on Tuesday, in the first known theft of its kind.

Thieves on Monday broke into the Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency and cut into a strong box, making off with 112 pieces of rhino horn, weighing 175 pounds.

“It’s the first time there has been a break-in at our premises, it was obviously well planned,” the parks’ spokeswoman Kholofelo Nkambule said.

Elephant ivory, rifles and ammunition, which were in the same safe, were left untouched, Nkambule said.

Poaching rhinos for their horns is a growing problem in South Africa and a lucrative business for organized criminal networks but it is unusual for thieves to target stockpiles.

Most of the rhino horns were from de-horning operations, which is an attempt by local authorities to decrease poaching and to protect the rhino species.

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