Pelham Jones, chairman of South Africa’s Private Rhino Owners Association (PROA) which was one of the respondents in the case, told Reuters the decision meant that the sale of rhino horns was legal in South Africa. “We welcome the Constitutional Court ruling, we believe it is a right we have been entitled to,” he told Reuters. A global ban in the horn trade, which is regulated by a U.N. convention, remains in place, which means horn acquired legally in South Africa cannot be exported from the country. In May last year, South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed the government’s bid to uphold a ban on the domestic trade in rhino horn put in place in 2009. Rhino horn can be harvested as it grows back and it can be removed from a tranquilised animal.

Source: Huffington Post April 06, 2017 08:26 UTC