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Why we may never know mainEntityOfPage @ type WebPage @ id https \ \ npr.org \ 2024 \ 1 \ 17 \ 1224271419 \ endangered-rhino-horn-conservation-poaching datePublished 2024 -1 -17 T05 1 11 -5 0 dateModified 2024 -1 -17 T05 1 11 -5 0 author @ type Person name [ Juliana Kim ]  description When a group of startups set out to solve an age-old problem with new technology  they met unexpected resistance from conservationists who saw the idea as misguided at best \ u2014 and dangerous at worst

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We may never know When a group of startups set out to solve an age-old problem with new technology  they met unexpected resistance from conservationists who saw the idea as misguided at best and dangerous at worst

Why we may never know January 17 20245 1 AM ET Juliana Kim Enlarge this image A black dehorned rhinoceros is followed by a calf at South Africas Bona Bona game reserve in 2012

Stephane de Sakutin AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Stephane de Sakutin AFP via Getty Images A black dehorned rhinoceros is followed by a calf at South Africas Bona Bona game reserve in 2012

Stephane de Sakutin AFP via Getty Images Late at night in his dorm room  Huyen Hoang was about to fall asleep when he could not shake off what he saw a photo of a rhinoceros dead and dehorned in Vietnam

That same year  the Javan rhino was deemed extinct in his home country  and rhinos elsewhere were being hunted at record pace

Hoang was 21 and a business major at Portland State University at the time

We both wanted to do something new and courageous  something meaningful  said Hoang  the business major

In their senior year  the Hoang brothers founded Rhinoceros Horn LLC  which sought to make and sell a lab-grown version of the chief ingredient found in rhino horns keratin

That same year  a startup named Ceratotech entered the fray with intentions of growing life-size rhino horns using the species stem cells

In 2015 came a third company  Pembient  a biotech firm devoted to reprogramming yeast cells to produce rhino horn proteins

The attempt to solve an age-old problem through new technology captured the imagination of people across the world

Hundreds of thousands of dollars were invested  labs across the United States were involved and stockpiles of prototypes were made

But nearly a decade later  the industry is hanging on by a thread

Ceratotech remains active but is struggling to find funding to advance its research

Even if the companies survive  they would still have to confront growing scrutiny of biofabricated products of endangered species from the more than 180 nations that are parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora

The treaty  known as CITES  is meant to ensure that the survival of endangered species is not jeopardized by global trade

In interviews  the founders of all three companies said that trying to disrupt the illegal market for rhino horns through the introduction of an engineered alternative was a goal without precedent one that presented financial  logistical and legal challenges alike

Enlarge this image A seized rhino horn is shown during the destruction of a stockpile of ivory and rhino horn in Hanoi  Vietnam  in 2016

More than 2 tons of ivory and 154 pounds of rhino horn were crushed and burned on the outskirts of Hanoi to deter the illegal market of ivory and rhino horns

Hoang Dinh Nam AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Hoang Dinh Nam AFP via Getty Images A seized rhino horn is shown during the destruction of a stockpile of ivory and rhino horn in Hanoi  Vietnam  in 2016

More than 2 tons of ivory and 154 pounds of rhino horn were crushed and burned on the outskirts of Hanoi to deter the illegal market of ivory and rhino horns

Hoang Dinh Nam AFP via Getty Images For their plans to work  long-standing beliefs around how best to protect an endangered species would have to be shaken

That quandary put them at odds with an unexpected source the very groups devoted to protecting the rhinos

They saw us as undoing the work that theyve been doing and the programs that theyve had going  Hoang said

Conservationists interviewed for this story say there was good reason for the resistance  describing the companies efforts as misguided at best and dangerous at worst

If you want us to experiment on this technology  do it with another species thats not going to be wiped out within five years if it goes wrong  said John Baker  the chief program officer of the conservation group WildAid

Fewer than 27  000 rhinos are left in the world Rhino horns are among the most valuable products in the wildlife black market

The appendages have been sold for as high as $ 400  000 per kilogram or about $ 11  000 an ounce outpacing the cost of elephant ivory and gold

The top rhino horn markets are in China and Vietnam  largely driven by the wealthy

While a shrinking number of consumers believe horn shavings can treat certain cancers or hangovers  there is no evidence to show that keratin  the same protein found in human hair and fingernails  has such benefits

Enlarge this image A carved rhino horn is among the confiscated wildlife contraband placed on display during the 2015 U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Washington  D.C. Chris Kleponis AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chris Kleponis AFP via Getty Images A carved rhino horn is among the confiscated wildlife contraband placed on display during the 2015 U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Washington  D.C. Chris Kleponis AFP via Getty Images At the start of the 20 th century  there were about 500  000 rhinos around the world  according to the World Wildlife Fund

But habitat loss and poaching led to a staggering population decline

To protect the species  international trade of rhino horn was outlawed under CITES in 1977

Soon after  a sophisticated international poaching industry emerged to hunt for horns  involving everything from helicopters to night vision gear to silenced rifles

As of 2022 about 27  000 rhinos were left in the world and at least 561 were killed in Africa  according to Save the Rhino International

A cold reception The idea for lab-grown rhino horns emerged at a time when genetic engineering  from cultured meat to milk  was an increasingly popular and expanding industry

Pembient CEO Matthew Markus launched his company on the belief that such technology did not have to be confined to livestock

Markus said that in the early days of his startup  he sensed some skepticism from the conservation field but that all in all  he did not anticipate it to be a nonstarter

I expected negative feedback and maybe through a series of dialogue  we would come to some sort of agreement over time

Enlarge this image An early synthetic rhino horn prototype created by Matthew Markus and his team at Pembient

Matthew Markus hide caption toggle caption Matthew Markus An early synthetic rhino horn prototype created by Matthew Markus and his team at Pembient

Some conservationists feared that the product would give credence to the false belief that horn shavings have medicinal value

So  Markus said he pivoted his focus to the carving market and creating solid horn

His plan was to flood the market with lab-grown horns in the hope of diluting the value of the real thing

Worse  his critics said  it could create new uses  alluding to past comments by Markus about the possibility of using his product to make items like iPhone cases and engineered-horn-infused beer

There were also fears that bio-identical horns would only make it harder for law enforcement to police the smuggling of real horn

Two sides at fundamental odds Engineered rhino horns  to many conservationists  were not only an absurd idea from a technological and business standpoint

Some feared that the venture could also undermine conservation efforts work that took decades

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Why we may never know Late at night in his dorm room  Huyen Hoang was about to fall asleep when he could not shake # huyenhoang # vietnam # vietnameseamerican # javan # rhinos # hoang # rhinoceroshorn # llc # rhino # ceratotech image https c.biztoc p e1dd87d49604a43f s.webp @ type NewsArticle url https biztoc x e1dd87d49604a43f datePublished dateModified genre Current News keywords huyenhoang vietnam vietnameseamerican javan rhinos hoang rhinoceroshorn llc rhino ceratotech cites johnbaker wildaid worldwildlifefund africa matthewmarkus iphone taiwan tanyasanerib peterknights author @ type Organization name npr.org url https npr.org mainEntityOfPage @ type WebPage @ id https biztoc x e1dd87d49604a43f publisher @ type Organization name BizToc logo @ type ImageObject url https c.biztoc 265 og.png BizToc MENU Login Sign Up Home Crypto News Media News Hot Live Light Mode Imagery Search Settings & amp ; Dark Mode Customize News Grid iOS App GPT Plugin Facebook Twitter Telegram - - Discord - - RSS Feed Could lab-grown rhino horns stop poaching 

Why we may never knowLate at night in his dorm room  Huyen Hoang was about to fall asleep when he could not shake off what he saw a photo of a rhinoceros dead and dehorned in Vietnam.It was 2011 when Hoang  a Vietnamese American  first learned about rhino horn poaching

That same year  the Javan rhino was deemed extinct in his # huyenhoang # vietnam # vietnameseamerican # javan # rhinos # hoang # rhinoceroshorn # llc This story appeared on npr.org  0 Facebook Twitter Telegram - - Discord - - RSS Feed About & # 8286 ; ; Contact & # 8286 ; ; Legal & # 8286 ; ; Status The Entire Business World on a Single Page

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Why we may never know mainEntityOfPage @ type WebPage @ id https \ \ npr.org \ 2024 \ 1 \ 17 \ 1224271419 \ endangered-rhino-horn-conservation-poaching datePublished 2024 -1 -17 T05 1 11 -5 0 dateModified 2024 -1 -17 T05 1 11 -5 0 author @ type Person name [ Juliana Kim ]  description When a group of startups set out to solve an age-old problem with new technology  they met unexpected resistance from conservationists who saw the idea as misguided at best \ u2014 and dangerous at worst

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We may never know When a group of startups set out to solve an age-old problem with new technology  they met unexpected resistance from conservationists who saw the idea as misguided at best and dangerous at worst

Why we may never know January 17 20245 1 AM ET Juliana Kim Enlarge this image A black dehorned rhinoceros is followed by a calf at South Africas Bona Bona game reserve in 2012

Stephane de Sakutin AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Stephane de Sakutin AFP via Getty Images A black dehorned rhinoceros is followed by a calf at South Africas Bona Bona game reserve in 2012

Stephane de Sakutin AFP via Getty Images Late at night in his dorm room  Huyen Hoang was about to fall asleep when he could not shake off what he saw a photo of a rhinoceros dead and dehorned in Vietnam

That same year  the Javan rhino was deemed extinct in his home country  and rhinos elsewhere were being hunted at record pace

Hoang was 21 and a business major at Portland State University at the time

We both wanted to do something new and courageous  something meaningful  said Hoang  the business major

In their senior year  the Hoang brothers founded Rhinoceros Horn LLC  which sought to make and sell a lab-grown version of the chief ingredient found in rhino horns keratin

That same year  a startup named Ceratotech entered the fray with intentions of growing life-size rhino horns using the species stem cells

In 2015 came a third company  Pembient  a biotech firm devoted to reprogramming yeast cells to produce rhino horn proteins

The attempt to solve an age-old problem through new technology captured the imagination of people across the world

Hundreds of thousands of dollars were invested  labs across the United States were involved and stockpiles of prototypes were made

But nearly a decade later  the industry is hanging on by a thread

Ceratotech remains active but is struggling to find funding to advance its research

Even if the companies survive  they would still have to confront growing scrutiny of biofabricated products of endangered species from the more than 180 nations that are parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora

The treaty  known as CITES  is meant to ensure that the survival of endangered species is not jeopardized by global trade

In interviews  the founders of all three companies said that trying to disrupt the illegal market for rhino horns through the introduction of an engineered alternative was a goal without precedent one that presented financial  logistical and legal challenges alike

Enlarge this image A seized rhino horn is shown during the destruction of a stockpile of ivory and rhino horn in Hanoi  Vietnam  in 2016

More than 2 tons of ivory and 154 pounds of rhino horn were crushed and burned on the outskirts of Hanoi to deter the illegal market of ivory and rhino horns

Hoang Dinh Nam AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Hoang Dinh Nam AFP via Getty Images A seized rhino horn is shown during the destruction of a stockpile of ivory and rhino horn in Hanoi  Vietnam  in 2016

More than 2 tons of ivory and 154 pounds of rhino horn were crushed and burned on the outskirts of Hanoi to deter the illegal market of ivory and rhino horns

Hoang Dinh Nam AFP via Getty Images For their plans to work  long-standing beliefs around how best to protect an endangered species would have to be shaken

That quandary put them at odds with an unexpected source the very groups devoted to protecting the rhinos

They saw us as undoing the work that theyve been doing and the programs that theyve had going  Hoang said

Conservationists interviewed for this story say there was good reason for the resistance  describing the companies efforts as misguided at best and dangerous at worst

If you want us to experiment on this technology  do it with another species thats not going to be wiped out within five years if it goes wrong  said John Baker  the chief program officer of the conservation group WildAid

Fewer than 27  000 rhinos are left in the world Rhino horns are among the most valuable products in the wildlife black market

The appendages have been sold for as high as $ 400  000 per kilogram or about $ 11  000 an ounce outpacing the cost of elephant ivory and gold

The top rhino horn markets are in China and Vietnam  largely driven by the wealthy

While a shrinking number of consumers believe horn shavings can treat certain cancers or hangovers  there is no evidence to show that keratin  the same protein found in human hair and fingernails  has such benefits

Enlarge this image A carved rhino horn is among the confiscated wildlife contraband placed on display during the 2015 U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Washington  D.C. Chris Kleponis AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chris Kleponis AFP via Getty Images A carved rhino horn is among the confiscated wildlife contraband placed on display during the 2015 U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Washington  D.C. Chris Kleponis AFP via Getty Images At the start of the 20 th century  there were about 500  000 rhinos around the world  according to the World Wildlife Fund

But habitat loss and poaching led to a staggering population decline

To protect the species  international trade of rhino horn was outlawed under CITES in 1977

Soon after  a sophisticated international poaching industry emerged to hunt for horns  involving everything from helicopters to night vision gear to silenced rifles

As of 2022 about 27  000 rhinos were left in the world and at least 561 were killed in Africa  according to Save the Rhino International

A cold reception The idea for lab-grown rhino horns emerged at a time when genetic engineering  from cultured meat to milk  was an increasingly popular and expanding industry

Pembient CEO Matthew Markus launched his company on the belief that such technology did not have to be confined to livestock

Markus said that in the early days of his startup  he sensed some skepticism from the conservation field but that all in all  he did not anticipate it to be a nonstarter

I expected negative feedback and maybe through a series of dialogue  we would come to some sort of agreement over time

Enlarge this image An early synthetic rhino horn prototype created by Matthew Markus and his team at Pembient

Matthew Markus hide caption toggle caption Matthew Markus An early synthetic rhino horn prototype created by Matthew Markus and his team at Pembient

Some conservationists feared that the product would give credence to the false belief that horn shavings have medicinal value

So  Markus said he pivoted his focus to the carving market and creating solid horn

His plan was to flood the market with lab-grown horns in the hope of diluting the value of the real thing

Worse  his critics said  it could create new uses  alluding to past comments by Markus about the possibility of using his product to make items like iPhone cases and engineered-horn-infused beer

There were also fears that bio-identical horns would only make it harder for law enforcement to police the smuggling of real horn

Two sides at fundamental odds Engineered rhino horns  to many conservationists  were not only an absurd idea from a technological and business standpoint

Some feared that the venture could also undermine conservation efforts work that took decades

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Why we may never knowLate at night in his dorm room  Huyen Hoang was about to fall asleep when he could not shake off what he saw a photo of a rhinoceros dead and dehorned in Vietnam.It was 2011 when Hoang  a Vietnamese American  first learned about rhino horn poaching

That same year  the Javan rhino was deemed extinct in his # huyenhoang # vietnam # vietnameseamerican # javan # rhinos # hoang # rhinoceroshorn # llc This story appeared on npr.org  0 Facebook Twitter Telegram - - Discord - - RSS Feed About & # 8286 ; ; Contact & # 8286 ; ; Legal & # 8286 ; ; Status The Entire Business World on a Single Page

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But in wildlife conservation  the challenge is how do we get people to not buy stuff 

Today on the show  the story of a business trying to make lab-grown rhino horns and the backlash that followed

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But in wildlife conservation  the challenge is how do we get people to not buy stuff 

Today on the show  the story of a business trying to make lab-grown rhino horns and the backlash that followed

Related Supply  demand  extinction Apple Spotify Rhino Bonds Shooting Bambi to Save Mother Nature For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money  subscribe to Planet Money + via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Music by Drop Electric

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But in wildlife conservation  the challenge is how do we get people to not buy stuff 

Today on the show  the story of a business trying to make lab-grown rhino horns and the backlash that followed

Related Supply  demand  extinction Apple Spotify Rhino Bonds Shooting Bambi to Save Mother Nature For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money  subscribe to Planet Money + via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Music by Drop Electric

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But in wildlife conservation  the challenge is how do we get people to not buy stuff 

Today on the show  the story of a business trying to make lab-grown rhino horns and the backlash that followed

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The Indicator from Planet Money npr.org 2024 2 20 1197962076 lab-grown-rhino-horns-conservationists-illegal-poaching In business  the million-dollar question is how to get people to buy stuff

But in wildlife conservation  the challenge is how do we get people to not buy stuff 

Today on the show  the story of a business trying to make lab-grown rhino horns and the backlash that followed

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While some stories from this issue are not yet available to read online  you can explore more from the magazine.The Atlantic DailyGet our editors guide to what matters in the world  delivered to your inbox everyweekday.Email AddressSign UpA Maasai boy herds goats and sheep in the shadow of Ol Doinyo Lengaiknown to the Maasai as the Mountain of Godin northern Tanzania

Government plans call for the removal of the Maasai from this region  the latest in a long series of evictions.GlobalThis Will Finish UsHow Gulf princes  the safari industry  and conservation groups are displacing the Maasai from the last of their Serengeti homelandBy Stephanie McCrummenPhotographs by Nichole SobeckiApril 8 2024 ShareSave Listen to this article00 53 30

Listen to more stories on curioThis article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter

Sign up for it here.It was high safari season in Tanzania  the long rains over  the grasses yellowing and dry

And at a crowded and dusty livestock market far away from all that  a man named Songoyo had decided not to hang himself  not today  and was instead pinching the skin of a sheepPlease

he was saying to a potential buyer with thousands of animals to choose from on this morning

the May 2024 more from this issue and find your next story to read.View MoreThe buyer moved on

He was tired Hed spent the whole night walking  herding another mans sheep across miles of grass and scrub and pitted roads to reach this market by opening time

What he needed to do was sell the sheep so their owner would pay him  so he could try to start a new life now that the old one was finished.The old life Hed had all the things that made a person such as him rich and respected

Three wives  14 children  a large compound with 75 cows and enough land to graze themsuch sweet land  he would say when he could bear to think of itand that was how things had been going until recently.The new life no cows  because the Tanzanian government had seized every single one of them

No compound  because the government had bulldozed it  along with hundreds of others

No land  because more and more of the finest  lushest land in northern Tanzania was being set aside for conservation  which turned out to mean for trophy hunters  and tourists on bespoke expeditions  and cappuccino trucks in proximity to buffalo viewinganything and anyone except the people who had lived there since the 17 th century  the pastoralists known as the Maasai.They were the ones tourists saw through their windshields selling beaded key chains at the gates of Serengeti National Park  or performing dances after dinner at safari lodges

They grazed their cattle with zebras and giraffes  and built mud-and-dung houses encircled by stick fences barely distinguishable from the wild landscape

They were among the lightest-living people on the planet  and yet it was the Maasai who were being told that the biggest threat to conservation and national progress was them

Their whole way of life had to go.From the April 2020 issue Ed Yong on the last giraffes on EarthAnd so Songoyo  after considering his alternatives  had devised a last-ditch plan for his own survival  one that had brought him to a town in Kenya called Aitong  where a cool wind was slapping sand and dung into his face as he scanned the market for buyers

He was far from home  roughly 65 miles north of the village in Tanzania where he had been tear-gassed and shot at for the first time in his life

He had seen elderly men beaten and guns fired at old women  and now it was down to this He was a herder for hire  working for a distant relative  trying to make enough money to buy one single cowCome

he called to the buyers who kept passing his herd and weaving through the bleating mass

was his plan one cow  because that was the starting point of what it meant to be a Maasai man  which was what he still wanted to be.The forces arrayed against Songoyo  whom I met in the course of two long trips to Tanzania late last year  include some of the worlds most powerful people and interests

What these people and interests want is what the Maasai are trying to keep the land they live on.Global leaders are seeking what they consider to be undeveloped land to meet a stated goal of conserving 30 percent of the planets surface by 2030

Western conservation groups  which refer to the Maasai as stakeholders on their own land  exert great influence  as does a booming safari industry that sells an old and destructive mythcasting the Serengeti as some primordial wilderness  with the Maasai as cultural relics obstructing a perfect view.The reality is that the Maasai have been stewards  integral to creating that very ecosystem

The same can be said of Indigenous groups around the world  to whom conservation often feels like a land grab

In the past two decades  more than a quarter million Indigenous people have been evicted to make way for ecotourism  carbon-offset schemes  and other activities that fall under the banner of conservation

That figure is expected to soar.More and more of the finest  lushest land in northern Tanzania was being set aside for conservation  which turned out to mean for trophy hunters and tourists on bespoke expeditions.For all its accomplishments  the cause of saving the planet has become a trillion-dollar business  a global scramble in which wealthy nations are looking to the developing world not just for natural resources  but for nature itself

The wealthy players include not only Europeans and Americans but Arabs and Chinese and others

Such are the pressures being brought to bear on northern Tanzania  where the Maasai migrated with their cattle 400 years ago  settling in an area encompassing hundreds of thousands of square miles of grassy plains  acacia woodlands  rivers  lakes  snowcapped mountains  salt flats  forests  and some of the most spectacular wildlife on the planet

They called it Siringet  which in the Maa language means the place where the land runs on forever

The Maasai see their recent history as a struggle to save that land from those who claimed it needed saving.First came the British colonial authorities  who established the 5  700-square-mile Serengeti National Park  pushing the Maasai to an adjacent zone called the Ngorongoro Conservation Area  with its famous crater  where they were promised they could live

Then came UNESCO It declared both Serengeti and Ngorongoro to be World Heritage Sites  which came with new restrictions

Western tourists began arriving  seeking an experience of Africa that a thousand movies promisedone of pristine beauty and big game  not people grazing cattle

Tanzanian authorities began leasing blocks of land to foreign hunting and safari companies  many of which promoted themselves as conservationistsa word the Maasai have come to associate with their own doom

Spread among the villages that dot the northern tourist zone  the Maasai have meanwhile been growing in numbertheir population has doubled in recent decades  to about 200  000

Inevitably  the clash of interests has led to bitter and occasionally violent conflict.Still  the threat unfolding now is of greater magnitude

Tourism in Ngorongoro is disappearing  she declared during one of her first major speeches

We agreed that people and wildlife could cohabitate  but now people are overtaking the wildlife

The Maasai listened with alarm  realizing that the people she was referring to were them.Not long after Hassans speech  officials announced plans to resettle the roughly 100  000 Maasai who were living in and around Ngorongoro to modern houses in another part of the country

Meanwhile  in a region north of Ngorongoro  bordering Serengeti National Park  government security forces began rolling into Maasai villages

They were carrying out another part of the plan annexing 580 square miles of prime grazing land to create an exclusive game reserve for the Dubai royal family  which had long hunted in the area

Park rangers began seizing cattle by the tens of thousands.Songoyo at an abandoned boma in the village of Ololosokwan

It lies within a tract now placed off-limits except for the use of the Dubai royal family

Nichole Sobecki for The Atlantic And more was coming a $ 7.500 billion package with the United Arab Emirates  of which Dubai is a part  that included new plans for tourism and conservation

A $ 9.500 million deal with the Chinese for a geological park that overlapped with additional Maasai villages

New maps and proposals from the government indicated that further tracts could soon be placed off-limits  including a sacred site that the Maasai call the Mountain of God.Read What trophy hunting does to the elephants it leaves behindThis is 80 percent of our land  a Maasai elder told me one evening during a meeting with other leaders in northern Tanzania

They had appealed to the United Nations  the European Union  the East African Court of Justice  and Vice President Kamala Harris when she visited Tanzania in 2023

Theyd unearthed old maps and village titles to prove that the land was theirs by law  not just by custom

Theyd written a letter to John and Patrick McEnroe after hearing that the tennis stars were hosting a $ 25  000-a-person safari-and-tennis expedition in the Serengeti

People made supportive statements  but no one was coming to help.This is what Songoyo understood as he paced the market in Aitong

Buyers were filtering out through the wire fence  and he still had 12 sheep left to sell  one of which was lame

A man tapped it with a stick.A cow stepped on his leg ; thats why he walks like that  Songoyo said  bracing the animal with his knees.The man walked away

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While some stories from this issue are not yet available to read online  you can explore more from the magazine.The Atlantic DailyGet our editors guide to what matters in the world  delivered to your inbox everyweekday.Email AddressSign UpA Maasai boy herds goats and sheep in the shadow of Ol Doinyo Lengaiknown to the Maasai as the Mountain of Godin northern Tanzania

Government plans call for the removal of the Maasai from this region  the latest in a long series of evictions.GlobalThis Will Finish UsHow Gulf princes  the safari industry  and conservation groups are displacing the Maasai from the last of their Serengeti homelandBy Stephanie McCrummenPhotographs by Nichole SobeckiApril 8 2024 ShareSave Listen to this article00 53 30

Listen to more stories on curioThis article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter

Sign up for it here.It was high safari season in Tanzania  the long rains over  the grasses yellowing and dry

And at a crowded and dusty livestock market far away from all that  a man named Songoyo had decided not to hang himself  not today  and was instead pinching the skin of a sheepPlease

he was saying to a potential buyer with thousands of animals to choose from on this morning

the May 2024 more from this issue and find your next story to read.View MoreThe buyer moved on

He was tired Hed spent the whole night walking  herding another mans sheep across miles of grass and scrub and pitted roads to reach this market by opening time

What he needed to do was sell the sheep so their owner would pay him  so he could try to start a new life now that the old one was finished.The old life Hed had all the things that made a person such as him rich and respected

Three wives  14 children  a large compound with 75 cows and enough land to graze themsuch sweet land  he would say when he could bear to think of itand that was how things had been going until recently.The new life no cows  because the Tanzanian government had seized every single one of them

No compound  because the government had bulldozed it  along with hundreds of others

No land  because more and more of the finest  lushest land in northern Tanzania was being set aside for conservation  which turned out to mean for trophy hunters  and tourists on bespoke expeditions  and cappuccino trucks in proximity to buffalo viewinganything and anyone except the people who had lived there since the 17 th century  the pastoralists known as the Maasai.They were the ones tourists saw through their windshields selling beaded key chains at the gates of Serengeti National Park  or performing dances after dinner at safari lodges

They grazed their cattle with zebras and giraffes  and built mud-and-dung houses encircled by stick fences barely distinguishable from the wild landscape

They were among the lightest-living people on the planet  and yet it was the Maasai who were being told that the biggest threat to conservation and national progress was them

Their whole way of life had to go.From the April 2020 issue Ed Yong on the last giraffes on EarthAnd so Songoyo  after considering his alternatives  had devised a last-ditch plan for his own survival  one that had brought him to a town in Kenya called Aitong  where a cool wind was slapping sand and dung into his face as he scanned the market for buyers

He was far from home  roughly 65 miles north of the village in Tanzania where he had been tear-gassed and shot at for the first time in his life

He had seen elderly men beaten and guns fired at old women  and now it was down to this He was a herder for hire  working for a distant relative  trying to make enough money to buy one single cowCome

he called to the buyers who kept passing his herd and weaving through the bleating mass

was his plan one cow  because that was the starting point of what it meant to be a Maasai man  which was what he still wanted to be.The forces arrayed against Songoyo  whom I met in the course of two long trips to Tanzania late last year  include some of the worlds most powerful people and interests

What these people and interests want is what the Maasai are trying to keep the land they live on.Global leaders are seeking what they consider to be undeveloped land to meet a stated goal of conserving 30 percent of the planets surface by 2030

Western conservation groups  which refer to the Maasai as stakeholders on their own land  exert great influence  as does a booming safari industry that sells an old and destructive mythcasting the Serengeti as some primordial wilderness  with the Maasai as cultural relics obstructing a perfect view.The reality is that the Maasai have been stewards  integral to creating that very ecosystem

The same can be said of Indigenous groups around the world  to whom conservation often feels like a land grab

In the past two decades  more than a quarter million Indigenous people have been evicted to make way for ecotourism  carbon-offset schemes  and other activities that fall under the banner of conservation

That figure is expected to soar.More and more of the finest  lushest land in northern Tanzania was being set aside for conservation  which turned out to mean for trophy hunters and tourists on bespoke expeditions.For all its accomplishments  the cause of saving the planet has become a trillion-dollar business  a global scramble in which wealthy nations are looking to the developing world not just for natural resources  but for nature itself

The wealthy players include not only Europeans and Americans but Arabs and Chinese and others

Such are the pressures being brought to bear on northern Tanzania  where the Maasai migrated with their cattle 400 years ago  settling in an area encompassing hundreds of thousands of square miles of grassy plains  acacia woodlands  rivers  lakes  snowcapped mountains  salt flats  forests  and some of the most spectacular wildlife on the planet

They called it Siringet  which in the Maa language means the place where the land runs on forever

The Maasai see their recent history as a struggle to save that land from those who claimed it needed saving.First came the British colonial authorities  who established the 5  700-square-mile Serengeti National Park  pushing the Maasai to an adjacent zone called the Ngorongoro Conservation Area  with its famous crater  where they were promised they could live

Then came UNESCO It declared both Serengeti and Ngorongoro to be World Heritage Sites  which came with new restrictions

Western tourists began arriving  seeking an experience of Africa that a thousand movies promisedone of pristine beauty and big game  not people grazing cattle

Tanzanian authorities began leasing blocks of land to foreign hunting and safari companies  many of which promoted themselves as conservationistsa word the Maasai have come to associate with their own doom

Spread among the villages that dot the northern tourist zone  the Maasai have meanwhile been growing in numbertheir population has doubled in recent decades  to about 200  000

Inevitably  the clash of interests has led to bitter and occasionally violent conflict.Still  the threat unfolding now is of greater magnitude

Tourism in Ngorongoro is disappearing  she declared during one of her first major speeches

We agreed that people and wildlife could cohabitate  but now people are overtaking the wildlife

The Maasai listened with alarm  realizing that the people she was referring to were them.Not long after Hassans speech  officials announced plans to resettle the roughly 100  000 Maasai who were living in and around Ngorongoro to modern houses in another part of the country

Meanwhile  in a region north of Ngorongoro  bordering Serengeti National Park  government security forces began rolling into Maasai villages

They were carrying out another part of the plan annexing 580 square miles of prime grazing land to create an exclusive game reserve for the Dubai royal family  which had long hunted in the area

Park rangers began seizing cattle by the tens of thousands.Songoyo at an abandoned boma in the village of Ololosokwan

It lies within a tract now placed off-limits except for the use of the Dubai royal family

Nichole Sobecki for The Atlantic And more was coming a $ 7.500 billion package with the United Arab Emirates  of which Dubai is a part  that included new plans for tourism and conservation

A $ 9.500 million deal with the Chinese for a geological park that overlapped with additional Maasai villages

New maps and proposals from the government indicated that further tracts could soon be placed off-limits  including a sacred site that the Maasai call the Mountain of God.Read What trophy hunting does to the elephants it leaves behindThis is 80 percent of our land  a Maasai elder told me one evening during a meeting with other leaders in northern Tanzania

They had appealed to the United Nations  the European Union  the East African Court of Justice  and Vice President Kamala Harris when she visited Tanzania in 2023

Theyd unearthed old maps and village titles to prove that the land was theirs by law  not just by custom

Theyd written a letter to John and Patrick McEnroe after hearing that the tennis stars were hosting a $ 25  000-a-person safari-and-tennis expedition in the Serengeti

People made supportive statements  but no one was coming to help.This is what Songoyo understood as he paced the market in Aitong

Buyers were filtering out through the wire fence  and he still had 12 sheep left to sell  one of which was lame

A man tapped it with a stick.A cow stepped on his leg ; thats why he walks like that  Songoyo said  bracing the animal with his knees.The man walked away

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How radioactive rhinos may prevent poaching const vanille e20dc026a37ff810ddf136aa68fb7d45ddad84ade184824b686074d67fd11439 ; const appurls base https biztoc login login api_more_source api mores ; const cdn_base_img https cdn.biztoc ; const cdn_base_img_sub ; const cdn_base cdn 799 ; const is_vip true ; const is_anon true ; const ag_lsame false ; const noshare false ; - - - - @ context https schema.org name BizToc headline How radioactive rhinos may prevent poaching description Every 20 hours in South Africa a rhino is killed for its horn and experts are turning to nuclear technology to try and stop this bloodshed.Rhino horns are articleBody Every 20 hours in South Africa a rhino is killed for its horn and experts are turning to nuclear technology to try and stop this bloodshed.Rhino horns are image https cdn.biztoc 31 cd7a800797209a_s.webp @ type NewsArticle url https biztoc x 31 cd7a800797209a datePublished 2024 -7 -4 T00 32 0 + 0 0 dateModified 2024 -7 -4 T00 32 0 + 0 0 genre Current News author @ type Organization name theweek url https theweek mainEntityOfPage @ type WebPage @ id https biztoc x 31 cd7a800797209a publisher @ type Organization name BizToc logo @ type ImageObject url https biztoc cdn 799 og.png BizToc MENU Login Sign Up Home Wire Topics Light Mode Imagery Search Settings & amp ; Dark Mode Customize News Grid Official API GPT Plugin Facebook Twitter Telegram - - Discord - - RSS Feed How radioactive rhinos may prevent poaching theweek science how-radioactive-rhinos-may-prevent-poaching Every 20 hours in South Africa a rhino is killed for its horn and experts are turning to nuclear technology to try and stop this bloodshed.Rhino horns are poached for use around the world in traditional medicines or as status symbols  so South African scientists are implanting This story appeared on theweek  2024 -7 -4 Facebook Twitter Telegram - - Discord - - RSS Feed About & # 8286 ; ; API & # 8286 ; ; Contact & # 8286 ; ; Legal & # 8286 ; ; Status The Entire Business World on a Single Page

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How radioactive rhinos may prevent poaching const vanille 3114533 e363e3c91490c58923e9b29be16a1419e306e70ce0862350cfa6ffa71 ; const appurls base https biztoc login login api_more_source api mores ; const cdn_base_img https cdn.biztoc ; const cdn_base_img_sub ; const cdn_base cdn 799 ; const is_vip true ; const is_anon true ; const ag_lsame false ; const noshare false ; - - - - @ context https schema.org name BizToc headline How radioactive rhinos may prevent poaching description Every 20 hours in South Africa a rhino is killed for its horn and experts are turning to nuclear technology to try and stop this bloodshed.Rhino horns are articleBody Every 20 hours in South Africa a rhino is killed for its horn and experts are turning to nuclear technology to try and stop this bloodshed.Rhino horns are image https cdn.biztoc 31 cd7a800797209a_s.webp @ type NewsArticle url https biztoc x 31 cd7a800797209a datePublished 2024 -7 -4 T00 32 0 + 0 0 dateModified 2024 -7 -4 T00 32 0 + 0 0 genre Current News author @ type Organization name theweek url https theweek mainEntityOfPage @ type WebPage @ id https biztoc x 31 cd7a800797209a publisher @ type Organization name BizToc logo @ type ImageObject url https biztoc cdn 799 og.png BizToc MENU Login Sign Up Home Wire Topics Light Mode Imagery Search Settings & amp ; Dark Mode Customize News Grid Official API GPT Plugin Facebook Twitter Telegram - - Discord - - RSS Feed How radioactive rhinos may prevent poaching theweek science how-radioactive-rhinos-may-prevent-poaching Every 20 hours in South Africa a rhino is killed for its horn and experts are turning to nuclear technology to try and stop this bloodshed.Rhino horns are poached for use around the world in traditional medicines or as status symbols  so South African scientists are implanting This story appeared on theweek  2024 -7 -4 Facebook Twitter Telegram - - Discord - - RSS Feed About & # 8286 ; ; API & # 8286 ; ; Contact & # 8286 ; ; Legal & # 8286 ; ; Status The Entire Business World on a Single Page

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