SAN DIEGO—The San Diego Zoo burned items containing rhinoceros horn with an estimated black market value of $1 million in a symbolic gesture Thursday to show the U.S. is committed to ending illegal wildlife trafficking.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service partnered with the zoo and California Department of Fish and Wildlife to hold the massive bonfire, the first of its kind in the United States.
In this photo provided by the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, flames consume confiscated rhinoceros horn items in a fire pit at the Park in Escondido, Calif. on Sept. 8. Ken Bohn/San Diego Zoo Safari Park via AP
