In this video, Marjo Hoedemaker (founder of the Marjo Hoedemaker Elephant Foundation) from the Netherlands speaks in Amersfoort zoo.
He says that in Vietnam and other countries, some people believe that rhino horn can cure cancer. This leads to poachers killing rhinos.
This quackery is nonsense. Rhino horn is the same stuff as human fingernails and toenails: keratin.
Marjo Hoedemaker proposes that people bring their clipped fingernails to Amersfoort zoo, starting on 1 December. A bin to collect the nails will then be next to the zoo’s rhino enclosure. As soon as Marjo will have five kilogram of keratin, he intends to bring it to the embassy of Vietnam in the Netherlands. The embassy may then send it to believers in Vietnam in the healing powers of rhino horn; thus saving rhino’s lives.
A pedicurist and other people have already said they will help.
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Exposing the Big Game 
So I¹m an idiot…
What do people do with rhino horns that they could do with fingernail or toenail clippings? Make a soup? a goop? a stew? an injection? a tea?
Do you know?
Veda
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I don’t know, but I think It has something to do with older Asians getting off, as with all poached wildlife parts they seek…
I think they pulverize rhino horn to turn it into powder in Viet Nam. They could do the same thing with finger and toenail clippings.