Tourists watch a one-horned rhinoceros inside the Kaziranga National Park, a wildlife reserve that provides refuge to more than 2,200 endangered Indian one-horned rhinoceros, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam.

A one-horned rhinoceros stands inside the Kaziranga National Park.

A two-and-half-month old male orphan one-horned rhinoceros calf rescued during recent floods walks at a rehabilitation center inside the Kaziranga National Park.

A one-horned rhinoceros wades in water as a forest guard stands nearby inside the Kaziranga National Park.

Indian forest officials search for a rhinoceros that possibly strayed from the Pobitora wildlife sanctuary in Rani Chapori, an island in the river Brahmaputra in Suwalkuchi in Assam state, India, Oct. 2.

Indian forest officials search for a rhinoceros that possibly strayed from the Pobitora wildlife sanctuary in Rani Chapori, an island in the river Brahmaputra in Suwalkuchi in Assam state, India, Oct. 2.

Two-month-old one-horned rhino Charlees romps in her enclosure at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park during her public debut on March 20, 2012.

A taxidermist removes the horn off of stuffed rhinoceros at the Natural History Museum of Berne (NMBE) on December 20.
Upset by the growing theft in the European museums, the Natural History Museum of Berne has decided to remove the horns of their six stuffed rhinoceros and replace them with wooden dummy horns.

A painter completes the replacement with a wooden horn on the stuffed rhinoceros.

Lam Tak-fai, acting head of Ports and Maritime Command, arranges rhino horns, part of a 33 rhino horns, ivory chopsticks and bracelets shipment seized by the Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department, during a news conference in Hong Kong November 15. Hong Kong Customs seized on Tuesday a total of 33 rhino horns, 758 ivory chopsticks and 127 ivory bracelets, worth about HK$17.4 million ($2.23 million), inside a container shipped from Cape Town, South Africa, according the a customs press release.

Ivory chopsticks, ivory bracelets and a rhinoceros horn are displayed wrapped in a "multiple layers concealment method" in Hong Kong's Customs and Excise Department Offices on November 15.

Game park workers restrain a rhinoceros to saw off her horn at the Kragga Kamma Game Park on March 30 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Horns are being removed from rhinos in an attempt to prevent the rhino from being poached and its horn sold on the black market.

Veterinarian William Fowlds saws off the horn of a rhinocerous while game ranger Mof Swanepoel restrains her at the Kragga Kamma Game Park on March 30 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Veterinarian William Fowlds, game park co-owner Mike Cantor and game ranger Mof Swanepoel treat the wounds of a rhinoceros after sawing off its horns at the Kragga Kamma Game Park on March 30 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

A rhinoceros whose horn has been removed grazes with its young at the Kragga Kamma Game Park on March 30 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Two male Rhinoceros lock horns playfully while pasturing in the savanah at the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy on Dec. 10.

Three park rangers look through their binoculars while sitting in the shade of a tree at the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in central Kenya on Dec.9.

The carcass of a Rhino shot dead by poachers and later scavanged by wild animals lies on the ground at the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in central Kenya on Dec. 9.

John Pameri, head of the security at the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in central Kenya, holds a Rhino tusk his team took from a Rhino that was shot dead by poachers earlier in the week, at the security headquarters on Dec. 9.