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For years, a South African rhino breeder has been able to keep the

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species safe, but can only continue to do so if he's allowed to sell

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their horns. John Humes plantation rhino Conservation Enterprises is

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home to nearly 2000 rhinos and where he legally removes and

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stockpiles their horns. Michelle Auto, who helps him with his

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trimming, said for us, it's a safety measure, so it acts as a

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poaching deterrent because we have such a vast amount of rhino at the

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project, we try and dissuade any potential poaching.

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To occur here by trimming the horns routinely. So that's a lesson and

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Center for people to come here and to poach our, I know, but this

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operation doesn't come at a cheap price with cameras and security

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being over $350,000 a month. The conservation has no backers and

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humans trying to legally trade the rhinos as well as their horns, and

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is trying to get help from the government. So if I had my government

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to help me to assist me to export my production of live rhino to

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export rhino horn.

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Or to start processing plate here where we process rhino Warner into

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jewelry or medicine.

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If my government helped me do that in order to pay for this project.

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This project will thrive and get better and better with more and more

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rhinos. Adding the government just finds ways to block me all the

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time instead of helping me. And it looks like the rules are firm

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because on the Ministry of Environment's website it says the

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commercial trade of rhino horns isn't allowed.