Vietnam seizes rhino horns smuggled from South Africa

HANOI, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam has seized nearly 34 kg of rhino horns at Noi Bai International Airport in the capital of Hanoi, the Vietnam News Agency reported on Saturday.

The horns were shipped by a sender in South Africa on a Qatar Airways flight to an individual in Hanoi.

Conservationists have warned that rhinos will become extinct within the next 10 years if poaching is not stopped. The last Java rhino in Vietnam was killed at Cat Tien National Park in 2010.

There are only 25,000 wild rhinos in the world at present, with the population dropping by 95 percent over the last four decades, the agency reported. South Africa is home to some 20,000 rhinos.