Horn Maker Nominated at Santiago Wild 2026
The film joins the official selection at Chile's premier wildlife film festival, opening a year of festival appearances.
Theoretical Analysis of a Simple Permit System for Selling Synthetic Wildlife Goods
A peer-reviewed economic model published in Ecological Economics testing the conditions under which a legal market for synthetic wildlife goods would reduce poaching, and identifying the laundering effect that conservation NGOs had been worried about as real but conditional.
Do Biotech Companies Have the Solution to the Rhino Poaching Problem?
An economist's analysis of the structural incentives facing biotech companies developing synthetic rhino horn, arguing that profit-maximizing behavior by these firms may undermine the conservation outcome they advertise unless policy intervenes.
Fast Company: This New Chinese Beer Will Be Made With Fake Rhino Horn
Fast Company breaks the news of Pembient's first commercial partnership: a rhino horn beer to be released in Beijing, leveraging horn's traditional reputation as a hangover remedy.
The Guardian: Can We Save the Rhino From Poachers With a 3D Printer?
The Guardian profiles Pembient and its founder Matthew Markus in one of the earliest pieces of press coverage of the bio-identical horn project. Horn Maker would follow the story from here for nearly a decade.