Who owns nature? — WTTC Travel Hub

A list of the most expensive items in the world includes three things: gold, cocaine, and rhino horns. From 1960 to 1995, black rhinos were massacred for them. Africa’s rhino population is estimated to have dropped from at least 65,000 in the middle of the century to just a few hundred by its end. For a while, extinction felt inevitable. Now – slowly – that’s starting to change. 

For part of the explanation, head to Desert Rhino Camp in northwest Namibia. What began as a rhino…