It Is A Sad Fact,

that many fools think that rhinoceros horn,

has magical or medical powers, meaning that the trade in their horns is always encouraging poachers to kill rhinoceroses and remove their horns, photograph Rhisotope Project, thankfully one answer to stop this vile trade is to make the horns traceable, the Rhisotope Project is an innovative effort by conservationists to fight back, scientists propose to inject radioactive isotopes inside the horns of living rhinoceroses, thus making the horns trackable if removed and smuggled, from the Rhisotope website,

The aim of the project is to investigate and establish whether it is possible to place radioactive isotopes into the horn of a rhino to curb rhino poaching and significantly lower demand reduction in places such as Vietnam and China, two of the biggest consumers of rhino horn, this pioneering research is headed up by Professor James Larkin who is Director of The Radiation and Health Physics Unit (RHPU) at the University of the Witwatersrand, He is also the Chairman of the university’s NIH mandated Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) and is a past chairman of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) International Nuclear Security Education Network (INSEN). together, with our partners, we will provide solutions to significantly reduce rhino poaching and demand reduction through the safe application of radioisotopes and radiation research, 

the hope being that any horn or shipping containers that contain them will be easy to trace, as they go through any of the radiation detectors used at borders and ports around the world, I wish the project every success.