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The Hanoi Connection: How Rhino Horn Gets from South Africa to China
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The Hanoi Connection: How Rhino Horn Gets from South Africa to China

2013 · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Rhino horn leaves African savannahs as poached contraband and arrives in Southeast Asia as a status symbol and folk medicine ingredient, and this film traces that route link by link. It follows the trail from poaching grounds in South Africa through smuggling networks to Hanoi, where horn is sold and consumed, tracking the middlemen, buyers, and enforcement gaps that let the trade keep running despite international bans. Interviews and on-the-ground footage lay out who profits at each stage, from the poachers taking the physical risk to the traders and retailers who capture the real money once horn crosses into Vietnam. The film treats the demand side seriously, showing how belief in the horn's medicinal or status value in Vietnam and China sustains a market that no amount of African anti-poaching effort alone can shut down. It ends where the supply chain does, in Hanoi's markets, making the case that stopping extinction requires attacking consumption, not just protecting animals thousands of miles away.