'Our agencies collaborate closely in a multi-pronged approach, which includes working with our international partners, to maintain vigilance in regulating and enforcing against illegal wildlife trade. For centuries, rhino horn has been used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to treat a wide variety of illnesses ranging from reducing fevers to stopping nosebleeds and preventing strokes. Rhino horn is primarily made of keratin, the protein that also makes up hair and nails. 'Singapore adopts a zero-tolerance stance on the illegal trade of endangered wildlife species, and their parts and derivatives,' NParks said. Under Singapore’s Endangered Species (Import and Export) Act, those who are found in possession of CITES-scheduled species in transit in Singapore without valid CITES permits face a fine of up to S$50,000 per scheduled species, not exceeding an aggregate of S$500,000, up to two years in prison, or both. 'The horns will subsequently be destroyed to prevent them from re-entering the market, disrupting the global supply chain of illegally traded rhinoceros horns.' 'Genetic testing is being carried out at NParks' Centre for Wildlife Forensics to identify the rhinoceros species,' it added. Today, at 81, his money is all but gone, and South African conservationist John Hume is throwing in the towel. Singapore is committed to international efforts to curb illegal wildlife trade to ensure the long-term survival of these animals, said NParks. Johannesburg He spent his vast fortune on a 30-year quest to save the rhinoceros. The rhinoceros horn has two absorption peaks of P-H stretching vibration of sphingolipid at 2350cm-1, while other horns only have one or no absorption peak in. Under CITES, international trade in rhinoceros horns is prohibited.

Rhinoceros are protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), to which Singapore is a signatory. II: antipyretic effects of prescriptions containing rhinoceros horn or water buffalo horn’ (1991) 33 Journal of Ethnopharmacy 45-50.

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