Singapore, Nov. 19 -- A 35.7-kg shipment of rhino horn smuggled from South Africa to Laos via Singapore has been seized at Changi Airport, marking the country's largest-ever rhino horn smuggling case, said Singaporean authorities in a media briefing on November 18.

Other than the 20 rhino horns estimated to be worth some 1.13 million SGD (870,000 USD), the authorities also discovered within four cargo shipments around 150kg of other animal parts including bones, teeth, and claws.

The horns came from the white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum), according to the National Parks Board's (NParks) Centre for Wildlife Forensics. The other animal parts are still being identified, but are likely to have come from carnivores.

The authorities said...