Inside the 9,000km smuggling route bringing rhino horns from South Africa through Singapore
Wildlife experts say Singapore has become a transit hub in the illegal rhino horn trade connecting South Africa to Southeast Asia.
Horns weighing 35.7kg were seized at Changi Airport on Nov 8, in a suspicious shipment of furniture fittings from South Africa.
Mafia-style syndicates use modern poaching operations to feed the demand in Asia, where rhino horns command high prices as supposed medicine and status symbols.
South Africa, home to most of the world's remaining rhinos, is a hotspot for poaching syndicates seeking easy access to large herds.
