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Fake rhino horn could undermine poaching

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To combat rampant poaching, some groups have started flooding black markets with bio-engineered fake keratin that looks and feels exactly like the real thing. By utterly saturating illicit trade networks with cheap replicas, they aim to destroy the exorbitant value of the genuine item.

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