And when Hoang’s bag appeared on the screen, they saw the unmistakable shape of rhinoceros horns-six of them, weighing more than 35 pounds and worth up to $500,000 on the black market. But behind the scenes, police were also using X-ray scanners on luggage checked to Vietnam, believed to be the epicenter of a new war on rhinos. The police dog sniffing the line of passengers didn’t worry him he’d checked his baggage through to Ho Chi Minh City. Tambo International Airport is an easy place to get lost in a crowd, and that’s just what a 29-year-old Vietnamese man named Xuan Hoang was hoping to do one day in March last year-just lie low until he could board his flight home. Infamously fierce, rhinoceroses, pictured is a black rhino in Kenya, are victims of rumors that have driven the price of their horn to hundreds of dollars an ounce.
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