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This start-up is tackling poaching by 3D-printing rhino horns

Nov 23, 2017

White rhinoceros Bruno (R) and Gracie are seen in their enclosure at Thoiry zoo and wildlife park, about 50 km (30 miles) west of Paris, France, March 7, 2017. Poachers broke into the zoo last night, shot dead four-year-old male white rhino called Vince, and sawed off its horn in what is believed to be the first time in Europe that a rhino in captivity has been attacked and killed. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann - RC1CD5C11990

1,054 rhinos were killed in South Africa in 2016, up from just 13 in 2007, according to the nonprofit Save the Rhino. Image: REUTERS/Christian Hartmann

Jeremy Berke

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