In July 2010, we began our article series about China’s rhino horn scheme. This is the latest development.
Environmental activists in China are taking a closer look at the Longhui Pharmaceutical Company’s rhino horn farm, and here are a few of their recent findings.
According to Jing Zhang, the founder of China’s Student Alliance for Animal Rights, most of the rhinos have been moved from Sanya to another farm in Yunnan Province.
Ten rhinos were identified at the Sanya location — one male and nine females. The rhinos were observed outside with a large mud wallow.
Jing’s team interviewed residents living near the Sanya location, who claimed that the “company was unsuccessful at breeding rhinos”.
While specific health issues could not be confirmed, it is suspected that some of the rhinos have died.
The Student Alliance for Animal Rights (SAFAR) has partnered with Green Beagle, a Chinese environmental NGO, to investigate the rhino horn scheme at ground zero.
SAFAR is opposed to the rhino farm. We at Saving Rhinos are assisting SAFAR with their upcoming awareness campaign about the rhino farm, rhinos, and the rhino horn trade.
Timeline and background
For the timeline and background on this disturbing situation, see:
- “Revealed: China’s ‘Rhino Horn Cancer Treatment’ Scheme.” Rhino Horn is Not Medicine. 26 January 2012.
- ““Suspicions Confirmed: China Investing Millions in Rhino Horn Scheme.” Rhino Horn is Not Medicine. 02 June 2011.
- “In Plain Sight: China’s Rhino Horn Scheme.” Rhino Horn is Not Medicine. 12 June 2011.
- “Reports of More Rhinos Arriving in China from South Africa.” Rhino Horn is Not Medicine. 19 December 2010.
- “Chinese Researchers Hope to Turn Rhino Horn Cultivation into Thriving Enterprise While Avoiding CITES Scrutiny.” Rhino Horn is Not Medicine. 17 November 2010.
- “Concern Grows Over Possible Links Between Rhino Horn Demand and China’s State-Funded TCM Research.” Rhino Horn is Not Medicine. 05 October 2010.
- “Chinese News Reports Arrival of 12 Rhinos From South Africa.” Rhino Horn is Not Medicine. 03 August 2010.
- “Revealed: Location of China’s Rhino Farm and ‘Horn Harvesting’ Experiments.” Rhino Horn is Not Medicine. 20 July 2010.
About SAFAR
Student Alliance for Animal Rights is dedicated to promoting animal rights on various campuses and the local communities through student engagement. On college campuses, Student Alliance for Animal Rights intends to let students realize the major conservation and animal cruelty issues in United States, China, Costa Rica and other countries, and encourage them to educate the rest of the people in the community, through petitions, presentations, seminars, and other activities held on and off college campuses.
Learn more here.
Source: Pers. comm. Jing Zhang (Feb. – March 2012).
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Thanks for sharing with us and all your hard work. We need more people like you on this planet of ours!!!!
Well done to SAFAR. It is absolute madness this whole Rhino horn business. Leave those animals alone. Why do Humans mess with them??? Please leave them alone now!!!
Thanks for all you’re trying to do. The message needs to get out to all the consumers and those ignorant that the rhino horn is of no value to the human and that they are just being conned and ripped off by a syndicate greedy for wealth.
please stop with this
Having seen this evening another episode of a BBC doc on china, our only hope is for the whole thing to colapse from within as it has done before. The people in the main are living in another world and with all the corruption you can imagine combined with brainwashing on a scale hard to believe.