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Juliana Kim

Could lab-grown rhino horns stop poaching? Why we may never know

A black dehorned rhinoceros is followed by a calf at South Africa's Bona Bona game reserve in 2012. (Stephane de Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images)

Late at night in his dorm room, Huyen Hoang was about to fall asleep when he could not shake off what he saw — a photo of a rhinoceros dead and dehorned in Vietnam.

It was 2011 when Hoang, a Vietnamese American, first learned about rhino horn poaching. That same year, the Javan rhino was deemed extinct in his home country, and rhinos elsewhere were being hunted at record pace.

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