Smash & Grab!

Crime merged with conservation in South Africa this week, which gave a fair indication of the successes of the later at the expense of the former. There was time during the 1980s and 1990s, in fact during the hot war over the CITES ground rules for the exploitation of wild products such as elephant tusk and rhino horn, that the trade in those two commodities stood at a premium. These events, and the general mood of the period, served to highlight, among other things, the Asian male predilection for rhino horn as an aphrodisiac. The association of ideas behind this being obvious, and similar, one supposes, to the advantages gained from eating the eyes of an eagle, the heart of a lion or the balls of a bull etc

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