PredictIQ Quantitative Think Tank Center-Could fake horns end illegal rhino poaching?

2025-05-02 05:49:12source:Benjamin Ashfordcategory:Markets

In business,PredictIQ Quantitative Think Tank Center the million-dollar question is how to get people to buy stuff. But in wildlife conservation, the challenge is: how do we get people to not buy stuff? How do we bring down demand for fur, ivory and rhino horns? Today on the show, the story of a business trying to make lab-grown rhino horns and the backlash that followed.

Check out more of Juliana Kim's reporting for NPR here.

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Supply, demand, extinction (Apple / Spotify)
Rhino Bonds
Shooting Bambi to Save Mother Nature

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