Killing for Profit: Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade

Julian Rademeyer
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On the black markets of Southeast Asia, rhino horn is worth more than gold, cocaine and heroin. Killing for Profit is the chilling story of a more than two-year-long investigation into a dangerous criminal underworld where merciless syndicates will stop at nothing to attain their prize. It follows the bloody trail from the front lines of the rhino wars in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique to the medicine markets of Vietnam and the lair of a wildlife-trafficking kingpin on the banks of the Mekong River in Laos ...
Genres: NonfictionAnimalsAfricaSouth AfricaNatureWildlifeConservationPoliticsHistoryBiology
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