In September 2017, the Associated Press circulated a wire story documenting how rhino-horn traffickers were responding to enforcement pressure by reshaping the product itself. Horns carved into bracelets, beads, and powdered fragments. Routes redrawn to defeat customs scanning.
Julian Rademeyer, author of "Killing for Profit" and a public voice on the trafficking networks, is quoted on the adaptation pattern. The piece sits alongside the BBC "Rhino horn smuggled as jewellery" investigation (separately archived) as the supply-chain documentation cluster from late 2017.
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