Rhino horn before burning

Rhino horn. Photo by San Diego Zoo.

SAN DIEGO -- In a ceremony that signaled to the world the United States is committed to ending the scourge of wildlife trafficking, confiscated rhino horn items with an estimated black market value of  $1 million -- including whole horns, ornate objects and items falsely marketed as medicinals -- were reduced to ashes.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service partnered with the San Diego Zoo Global and California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) to stage the symbolic eventThursday, the first of its kind in the nation.

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