India burns 2,500 rhino horns in conservation ceremony

India’s Assam state, the last home to greater one-horned rhinoceros, destroyed nearly 2,500 horns on Wednesday by incinerating them at a public ceremony to dissuade poachers from killing the vulnerable animal.

Flames rise from rhino horns, kept in government custody for decades, that were burnt at an event to mark World Rhino Day in Bokakhat near Kaziranga National Park, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, Wednesday, Sept.  22, 2021.  The horns, about 2,500 of them, were from rhinos that died of natural causes at Kaziranga and other smaller habitats across Assam state and those confiscated from poachers.  Kaziranga is the world���s largest habitat for the rare one-horned animal.  (AP Photo / Anupam Nath)
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